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CVE-2017-9048
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-18T06:29:00.433 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:27:23.540

Summary

libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. The function xmlSnprintfElementContent in valid.c is supposed to recursively dump the element content definition into a char buffer 'buf' of size 'size'. At the end of the routine, the function may strcat two more characters without checking whether the current strlen(buf) + 2 < size. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2, such as PHP, to crash.

Affected products

xmlsoft — libxml2

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References

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