CVE-2018-14404
Published: 19 July 2018
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 7.5
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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libxml2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Released
(2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1.2)
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Released
(2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.6)
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Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Released
(2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.13)
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Patches: Other: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/a436374994c47b12d5de1b8b1d191a098fa23594 |