CVE-2021-3518
There's a flaw in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by an application linked with libxml2 could trigger a use-after-free. The greatest impact from this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
- Affected products
- Alt Linux, Almalinux, Astra Linux, Centos, Linuxmint, Apple Macos, Red Hat, Rocky Linux
- Xmlsoft libxml2
- < 2.9.11
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGH
- EPSS
- 3.7% (88th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-05-18
CVE-2021-3518 at NVD
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