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CVE-2018-14404

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
20.012

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2018-14404 are fixed in Ruby-nokogiri 1.8.5Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in IBM Aspera Shares 1.10.1Windows
SUSE-SU-2018:3081-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libxml2-2-2.9.4-46.15.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3081-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libxml2-2-32bit-2.9.4-46.15.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3081-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libxml2-2-debuginfo-2.9.4-46.15.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3081-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libxml2-2-debuginfo-32bit-2.9.4-46.15.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3081-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libxml2-debugsource-2.9.4-46.15.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3081-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3 ) libxml2-doc-2.9.4-46.15.1.noarch.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3081-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libxml2-tools-2.9.4-46.15.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3081-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libxml2-tools-debuginfo-2.9.4-46.15.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3081-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) python-libxml2-2.9.4-46.15.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3081-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) python-libxml2-debuginfo-2.9.4-46.15.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3081-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) python-libxml2-debugsource-2.9.4-46.15.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1190) libxml2 security update libxml2-2.9.1-6.el7.4.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1190) libxml2 security update libxml2-2.9.1-6.el7.4.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1190) libxml2 security update libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.el7.4.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1190) libxml2 security update libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.el7.4.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1190) libxml2 security update libxml2-python-2.9.1-6.el7.4.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1190) libxml2 security update libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.el7.4.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1190) libxml2 security update libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.el7.4.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1827) libxml2 security update libxml2-2.9.7-7.el8.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1827) libxml2 security update libxml2-2.9.7-7.el8.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1827) libxml2 security update libxml2-debugsource-2.9.7-7.el8.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1827) libxml2 security update libxml2-debugsource-2.9.7-7.el8.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1827) libxml2 security update libxml2-devel-2.9.7-7.el8.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1827) libxml2 security update libxml2-devel-2.9.7-7.el8.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2020:1827) libxml2 security update python3-libxml2-2.9.7-7.el8.x86_64.rpmLinux
(CESA-2020:1827) libxml2 security update libxml2-2.9.7-7.el8.i686.rpmLinux
(CESA-2020:1827) libxml2 security update libxml2-2.9.7-7.el8.x86_64.rpmLinux
(CESA-2020:1827) libxml2 security update libxml2-devel-2.9.7-7.el8.i686.rpmLinux
(CESA-2020:1827) libxml2 security update libxml2-devel-2.9.7-7.el8.x86_64.rpmLinux
(CESA-2020:1827) libxml2 security update python3-libxml2-2.9.7-7.el8.x86_64.rpmLinux
(CESA-2020:1190) libxml2 security update libxml2-2.9.1-6.el7.4.x86_64.rpmLinux
Vulnerabilities CVE-2018-14404 are fixed in Ruby-nokogiri for Linux 1.8.5Linux
NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability (CVE-2018-14404)NCM

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234