Use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml2 2.9.0 and possibly other versions leading to denial of service and arbitrary code execution

CVE-2013-1969 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml2 2.9.0 and possibly other versions might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the (1) htmlParseChunk and (2) xmldecl_done functions, as demonstrated by a buffer overflow in the xmlBufGetInputBase function.

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