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CVE-2018-14404
published 2018-07-19

CVE-2018-14404: A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression…

PriorityP428medium6.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH
EPSS
3.68%
88.3th percentile
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.

Affected

14 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
debianlibxml2< libxml2 2.9.10+dfsg-2 (bookworm)libxml2 2.9.10+dfsg-2 (bookworm)
nokogirinokogiri>= 0 < 1.8.51.8.5
xmlsoftlibxml2<= 2.9.8
xmlsoftlibxml2>= 0 < 2.9.10+dfsg-22.9.10+dfsg-2
xmlsoftlibxml2>= 0 < 2.9.10+dfsg-22.9.10+dfsg-2
xmlsoftlibxml2>= 0 < 2.9.10+dfsg-22.9.10+dfsg-2
xmlsoftlibxml2>= 0 < 2.9.10+dfsg-22.9.10+dfsg-2
xmlsoftlibxml2>= 0 < 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.132.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.13
xmlsoftlibxml2>= 0 < 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.62.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.6
xmlsoftlibxml2>= 0 < 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1.22.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1.2

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv3.07.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv6.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian6.5LOW
vendor_redhat6.5MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu5.5MEDIUM
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