CVE-2012-5134: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

November 28, 2012 (updated August 29, 2017)

Heap-based buffer underflow in the xmlParseAttValueComplex function in parser.c in libxml2, as used in Google Chrome and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted entities in an XML document.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5134

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