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CVE-2016-5131: Use After Free

July 23, 2016 (updated March 26, 2019)

Use-after-free vulnerability in libxml2, as used in Google Chrome, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function.

References

  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5131

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Affected versions

All versions up to 2.9.4

Solution

Unfortunately, there is no solution available yet.

Impact 8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-416: Use After Free

Source file

nuget/libxml2/CVE-2016-5131.yml

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