CVE-2010-4008
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
libxml2 before 2.7.8, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, Apple Safari 5.0.2 and earlier, and other products, reads from invalid memory locations during processing of malformed XPath expressions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted XML document.
- EPSS
- 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apache:openoffice
- apple:iphone_os
- apple:itunes
- apple:mac_os_x
- apple:safari
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- google:chrome
- opensuse:opensuse
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
- suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server
- xmlsoft:libxml2
References
- http://blog.bkis.com/en/libxml2-vulnerability-in-google-chrome-and-apple-safari/
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=58731
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html