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CVE-2025-27113

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Feb 18, 2025 | Modified: Mar 07, 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
2.9 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libxml2 Xmlsoft * 2.12.10 (excluding)
Libxml2 Xmlsoft 2.13.0 (including) 2.13.6 (excluding)
Libxml2 Ubuntu devel *
Libxml2 Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Libxml2 Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Libxml2 Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Libxml2 Ubuntu focal *
Libxml2 Ubuntu jammy *
Libxml2 Ubuntu noble *
Libxml2 Ubuntu oracular *
Libxml2 Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

References

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