Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-45322 - Use After Free vulnerability in Xmlsoft Libxml2
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
libxml2 through 2.11.5 has a use-after-free that can only occur after a certain memory allocation fails. This occurs in xmlUnlinkNode in tree.c. NOTE: the vendor's position is "I don't think these issues are critical enough to warrant a CVE ID ... because an attacker typically can't control when memory allocations fail."
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/06/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/06/5
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/344
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/344
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/583
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/583