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.
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/15/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98556
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3952
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/[email protected]%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/[email protected]%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
Source: MITRE
Published: 2017-05-18
Updated: 2021-06-29
Type: CWE-119
Base Score: 5
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Impact Score: 2.9
Exploitability Score: 10
Severity: MEDIUM
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Impact Score: 3.6
Exploitability Score: 3.9
Severity: HIGH