This page lists publicly disclosed CVE vulnerabilities affecting xmlsoft libxml2 (linked via NVD CPE). Each row includes severity scores, summaries, and publication dates to help identify and analyze security issues.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2015-7499 | Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlGROW function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive process memory information via unspecified vectors. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 6.46% | 2015-12-15 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2015-7498 | Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors related to extracting errors after an encoding conversion failure. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 7.02% | 2015-12-15 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2015-7497 | Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlDictComputeFastQKey function in dict.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 7.21% | 2015-12-15 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2015-5312 | The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660. | [email protected] | 7.1 | 4.52% | 2015-12-15 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2015-8035 | The xz_decomp function in xzlib.c in libxml2 2.9.1 does not properly detect compression errors, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (process hang) via crafted XML data. | [email protected] | 2.6 | 3.20% | 2015-11-18 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2015-7942 | The xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c in libxml2 does not properly skip intermediary entities when it stops parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7941. | [email protected] | 6.8 | 4.74% | 2015-11-18 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2015-7941 | libxml2 2.9.2 does not properly stop parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and libxml2 crash) via crafted XML data to the (1) xmlParseEntityDecl or (2) xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c, as demonstrated by non-terminated entities. | [email protected] | 4.3 | 3.07% | 2015-11-18 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2014-3660 | parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.2 does not properly prevent entity expansion even when entity substitution has been disabled, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a variant of the "billion laughs" attack. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 4.02% | 2014-11-04 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2013-0339 | libxml2 through 2.9.1 does not properly handle external entities expansion unless an application developer uses the xmlSAX2ResolveEntity or xmlSetExternalEntityLoader function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption), send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or read arbitrary files via a crafted XML document, aka an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. NOTE: it could be argued that because libxml2 already provides the ability to disable external entity expan | [email protected] | 6.8 | 3.61% | 2014-01-21 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2013-2877 | parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.0, as used in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a document that ends abruptly, related to the lack of certain checks for the XML_PARSER_EOF state. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 4.73% | 2013-07-10 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2013-1969 | Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml2 2.9.0 and possibly other versions might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the (1) htmlParseChunk and (2) xmldecl_done functions, as demonstrated by a buffer overflow in the xmlBufGetInputBase function. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 3.79% | 2013-04-25 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2013-0338 | libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka "internal entity expansion" with linear complexity. | [email protected] | 4.3 | 2.86% | 2013-04-25 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2012-0841 | 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. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 3.26% | 2012-12-21 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2012-5134 | Heap-based buffer underflow in the xmlParseAttValueComplex function in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 23.0.1271.91 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted entities in an XML document. | [email protected] | 6.8 | 4.38% | 2012-11-27 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2012-2871 | libxml2 2.9.0-rc1 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89, does not properly support a cast of an unspecified variable during handling of XSL transforms, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted document, related to the _xmlNs data structure in include/libxml/tree.h. | [email protected] | 6.8 | 2.38% | 2012-08-31 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2011-1944 | Integer overflow in xpath.c in libxml2 2.6.x through 2.6.32 and 2.7.x through 2.7.8, and libxml 1.8.16 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted XML file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow when adding a new namespace node, related to handling of XPath expressions. | [email protected] | 9.3 | 13.73% | 2011-09-02 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2010-4494 | Double free vulnerability in libxml2 2.7.8 and other versions, as used in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.215 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to XPath handling. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 7.53% | 2010-12-07 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2010-4008 | libxml2 before 2.7.8, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, Apple Safari 5.0.2 and earlier, and other products, reads from invalid memory locations during processing of malformed XPath expressions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted XML document. | [email protected] | 4.3 | 3.13% | 2010-11-16 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2009-2416 | Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted (1) Notation or (2) Enumeration attribute types in an XML file, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework. | [email protected] | 6.5 | 1.79% | 2009-08-11 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2009-2414 | Stack consumption vulnerability in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large depth of element declarations in a DTD, related to a function recursion, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework. | [email protected] | 4.3 | 3.12% | 2009-08-11 | 2026-06-16 |