CVE-2017-9049: Out-of-bounds Read

May 18, 2017 (updated June 29, 2021)

libxml2 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the xmlDictComputeFastKey function in dict.c. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2, such as PHP, to crash.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9049

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