suse · CVE-2018-14404

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 14:15:18 UTC Updated: 2026-04-17 15:21:14 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-14404 severity moderate: SUSE including 480 source package names (0.1.0:libxml2-2-2.9.7-3.3.1, 0.1.75:libxml2-2-2.9.7-3.3.1, …), 731 product×package rows across 270 product lines (Container bci/bci-init, Container bci/dotnet-aspnet, … (270 product lines)): Fixed 533, Known Affected 157, Known Not Affected 41.

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.

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