CVE-2021-3517 Information

Description

There is a flaw in the xml entity encoding functionality of libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11. An attacker who is able to supply a crafted file to be processed by an application linked with the affected functionality of libxml2 could trigger an out-of-bounds read. The most likely impact of this flaw is to application availability with some potential impact to confidentiality and integrity if an attacker is able to use memory information to further exploit the application.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1954232 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QVM4UJ3376I6ZVOYMHBNX4GY3NIV52WV/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00008.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BZOMV5J4PMZAORVT64BKLV6YIZAFDGX6/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210625-0002/ https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-05 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211022-0004/ https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.6