CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-2834

Double Free

Published: Sep 19, 2011 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/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

Double free vulnerability in libxml2, as used in Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to XPath handling.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Chrome Google * 14.0.835.163 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat libxml2-0:2.6.16-12.9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat libxml2-0:2.6.26-2.1.12.el5_7.2 *
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 oneiric *
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