CVE-2021-3517 - Redhat Jboss Core Services, Debian Debian Linux and Redhat Enterprise Linux
Critical 8.6
There is a flaw in the xml entity encoding functionality of libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11. An attacker who is able to supply a crafted file to be processed by an application linked with the affected functionality of libxml2 could trigger an out-of-bounds read. The most likely impact of this flaw is to application availability, with some potential impact to confidentiality and integrity if an attacker is able to use memory information to further exploit the application.
Affected software
Redhat Jboss Core Services
Debian Debian Linux
Redhat Enterprise Linux
Xmlsoft Libxml2
Fedoraproject Fedora