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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-07-19T13:00:00

Updated: 2020-09-10T00:06:23

Reserved: 2018-07-19T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-14404

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-07-19T13:29:00.480

Modified: 2020-09-10T01:15:14.097


Link: CVE-2018-14404

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