Detections
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CVE-2018-14404
high
Description
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595985