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CVE-2012-0841

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
21/12/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

libxml2 before 2.8.0 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.7.8 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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