CVE-2021-3537

Name
CVE-2021-3537
Description
A vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content, causing a NULL dereference. If an untrusted XML document was parsed in recovery mode and post-validated, the flaw could be used to crash the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956522
FEDORA https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QVM4UJ3376I6ZVOYMHBNX4GY3NIV52WV/
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00008.html
FEDORA https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BZOMV5J4PMZAORVT64BKLV6YIZAFDGX6/
Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210625-0002/
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-05
MISC https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
MISC https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* libxml2 >= None < 2.9.11

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
libxml2 3.10-main 2.9.9-r5 Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter@gmail.com> fixed