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High DLA-2653-1 4 CVEs

libxml2 - security update

Published May 10, 2021 · Updated Mar 9, 2026

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Debian · 9 libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2+deb9u4

Vulnerabilities 4

  • High 8.8
    CVE-2021-3518 EPSS 22%

    Nokogiri Implements libxml2 version vulnerable to use-after-free

    There's a flaw in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by an application linked with libxml2 could trigger a use-after-free. The greatest impact from this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity, an…

  • High 8.6
    CVE-2021-3517 EPSS 17%

    Nokogiri contains libxml Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability

    There is a flaw in the xml entity encoding functionality of libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11. An attacker who is able to supply a crafted file to be processed by an application linked with the affected functionality of libxml2 could trigger an out-of-bounds …

  • Medium 5.9

    Nokogiri Implements libxml2 version vulnerable to null pointer dereferencing

    A vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content, causing a NULL dereference. If an untrusted XML document was parsed in recovery mode and post-validated, the flaw could be used …

  • Unscored —

    There's a flaw in libxml2's xmllint in versions before 2.9.11. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be p…