CVE-2013-1969
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 3.8%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 3.8% (90th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-1957)
- Published
- April 25, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-1957 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- xmlsoft / libxml2
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00109.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00081.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53061(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/17/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/19/1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1817-1
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690202
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=de0cc20c29cb3f056062925395e0f68d2250a46f(Exploit)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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