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CVE-2011-2821

Double Free

Published: Aug 29, 2011 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.3 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2821
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html

Double free vulnerability in libxml2, as used in Google Chrome before 13.0.782.215, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted XPath expression.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Chrome Google * 13.0.782.215 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat mingw32-libxml2-0:2.7.6-6.el6_3 *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu lucid *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu maverick *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu natty *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu upstream *
Libxml2 Ubuntu hardy *
Libxml2 Ubuntu lucid *
Libxml2 Ubuntu maverick *
Libxml2 Ubuntu natty *
Libxml2 Ubuntu oneiric *
Libxml2 Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

References

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