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LIN1021-4634 : Security Advisory - libxml2 - CVE-2022-40303

Created: Oct 23, 2022    Updated: Dec 4, 2022
Resolved Date: Nov 5, 2022
Found In Version: 10.21.20.1
Fix Version: 10.21.20.15
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21
Component/s: Userspace

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.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40303

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