A vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content, causing a NULL dereference. If an untrusted XML document was parsed in recovery mode and post-validated, the flaw could be used to crash the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-05-14T19:50:10

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:01:08.318Z

Reserved: 2021-05-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-3537

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-05-14T20:15:16.553

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:21:47.317

Link: CVE-2021-3537

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-3537 - Bugzilla