CVE-2021-3541

Name

CVE-2021-3541

Description

A flaw was found in libxml2. Exponential entity expansion attack its possible bypassing all existing protection mechanisms and leading to denial of service.

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=1950515
CONFIRM	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0007/
Patch	https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.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	3.11-main	2.9.12-r0	Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter@gmail.com>	fixed
qt5-qtwebengine	3.14-community	5.15.3_git20211112-r0	Bart Ribbers <bribbers@disroot.org>	fixed