CVE-2011-2821
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
macOS Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | 6.0 |
Red Hat Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 6.3 | Affected | — |
| 6.0 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 8 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.7.8.dfsg-5 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.7.8.dfsg-5 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.7.8.dfsg-5 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.7.8.dfsg-5 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.7.8.dfsg-5 |
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
| 6.0 | Affected | — |
| 5.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| chrome | {"endExcluding":"13.0.782.215"} | 13.0.782.215 |
References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=89402
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/08/stable-channel-update_22.html
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0217.html
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2394
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:145
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1749.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13840
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2821
CWEs
CWE-415
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.