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CVE-2021-31598

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in libezxml.a in ezXML 0.8.6. The function ezxml_decode() performs incorrect memory handling while parsing crafted XML files, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Ezxml Project Ezxml: 0.8.6

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00005.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/ezxml/bugs/28/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00005.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/ezxml/bugs/28/

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