DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9048

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9048
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9048.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9048
Upstream
Published
2017-05-18T06:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:23Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.4+dfsg1-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.4+dfsg1-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.4+dfsg1-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.4+dfsg1-3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}