Vulnerability Database

296,746

Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2018-14404

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
canonical / ubuntu_linux 16.04 16.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 14.04 14.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 12.04 12.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 18.04 18.04.x
xmlsoft / libxml2 - 2.9.8.x
Ruby icon nokogiri - 1.8.5