CVE-2018-14567

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-08-16 · updated 2026-10-14
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

libxml2 2.9.8, if --with-lzma is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted XML file that triggers LZMA_MEMLIMIT_ERROR, as demonstrated by xmllint, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8035 and CVE-2018-9251.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
xmlsoft libxml2: 2.9.8

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105198
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/2240fbf5912054af025fb6e01e26375100275e74
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00035.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105198
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/2240fbf5912054af025fb6e01e26375100275e74
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00035.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html

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