🛡️ CVE-2023-29469
🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-415 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.4. When hashing empty dict strings in a crafted XML document, xmlDictComputeFastKey in dict.c can produce non-deterministic values, leading to various logic and memory errors, such as a double free. This behavior occurs because there is an attempt to use the first byte of an empty string, and any value is possible (not solely the '\0' value).

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-415
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-04-24
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
libxml2 2.10.4

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