🛡️ CVE-2022-40303
🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-190 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. When parsing a multi-gigabyte XML document with the XML_PARSE_HUGE parser option enabled, several integer counters can overflow. This results in an attempt to access an array at a negative 2GB offset, typically leading to a segmentation fault.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-190
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-11-23
Updated 2026-06-13
Modified 2025-04-29

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
active-iq-unified-manager
clustered-data-ontap
clustered-data-ontap-antivirus-connector
h300s-firmware
h410c-firmware
h410s-firmware
h500s-firmware
h700s-firmware
ipados 15.7.2
iphone-os 15.7.2
libxml2 2.10.3
macos 12.0 12.6.2
netapp-manageability-sdk
ontap-select-deploy-administration-utility
platform/external/libxml2 13:0 13:2023-03-01
snapmanager
tvos 16.2
watchos 9.2

References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Dec/21
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Dec/24
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Dec/25
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Dec/26
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/tags/v2.10.3
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Dec/21
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Dec/24
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Dec/25
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Dec/26
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/tags/v2.10.3

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