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CVE-2025-27113

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Feb 18, 2025 | Modified: Nov 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.1 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27113
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a NULL pointer dereference in xmlPatMatch in pattern.c.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Libxml2Xmlsoft*2.12.10 (excluding)
Libxml2Xmlsoft2.13.0 (including)2.13.6 (excluding)
Libxml2Ubuntudevel*
Libxml2Ubuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
Libxml2Ubuntuesm-infra/bionic*
Libxml2Ubuntuesm-infra/focal*
Libxml2Ubuntuesm-infra/xenial*
Libxml2Ubuntufocal*
Libxml2Ubuntujammy*
Libxml2Ubuntunoble*
Libxml2Ubuntuoracular*
Libxml2Ubuntuplucky*
Libxml2Ubuntuupstream*

Potential Mitigations

References

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