CVE-2013-1969

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-1969
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-04-25 23:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.9.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory SA53061 - libxml2 Multiple Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
USN-1817-1: libxml2 vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
oss-security - CVE request : libxml2 Multiple Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
openSUSE-SU-2013:0729-1: moderate: libxml2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
oss-security - Re: CVE request : libxml2 Multiple Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Bug 690202 – Buffer overflow errors originating from xmlBufGetInputBase in 2.9.0, ToT af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.gnome.org
Fix some buffer conversion issues (de0cc20c) · Commits · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.gnome.org Exploit
openSUSE-SU-2013:0945-1: moderate: libxml2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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