CVE-2017-5969

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

libxml2 2.9.4, when used in recover mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: The maintainer states "I would disagree of a CVE with the Recover parsing option which should only be used for manual recovery at least for XML parser.

Affected products

xmlsoft libxml2: 2.9.4

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/05/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/13/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96188
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778519
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/05/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/13/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96188
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778519
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01

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