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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…
Medium6.8EPSS 4.4%
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- Chrome
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.4% · top 8.7% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (22)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880466 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2013-10-22-8 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2013:1627 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1637 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/11/stable-channel-update.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0217 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-1656-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-2580 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6001 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- google-libxml-buffer-underflow(80294) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1027815 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 54886 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5934 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0178 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1512 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 55568 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 56684 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=6a36fbe3b3e001a8a840b5c1fdd81cefc9947f0d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- MDVSA-2013:056 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 51448 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=158249 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2013-09-18-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .