VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5134

medium
Published 2012-11-28 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Heap-based buffer underflow in the xmlParseAttValueComplex function in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 23.0.1271.91 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted entities in an XML document.

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 macOS Affected 48 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
6.1.3 Affected —
6.1.2 Affected —
6.1 Affected —
6.0.2 Affected —
6.0.1 Affected —
6.0 Affected —
5.1.1 Affected —
5.1 Affected —
5.0.1 Affected —
5.0 Affected —
4.3.5 Affected —
4.3.3 Affected —
4.3.2 Affected —
4.3.1 Affected —
4.3.0 Affected —
4.2.8 Affected —
4.2.5 Affected —
4.2.1 Affected —
4.1 Affected —
4.0.2 Affected —
4.0.1 Affected —
4.0 Affected —
3.2.2 Affected —
3.2.1 Affected —
3.2 Affected —
3.1.3 Affected —
3.1.2 Affected —
3.1 Affected —
3.0.1 Affected —
3.0 Affected —
2.2.1 Affected —
2.2 Affected —
2.1.1 Affected —
2.1 Affected —
2.0.2 Affected —
2.0.1 Affected —
2.0.0 Affected —
2.0 Affected —
1.1.5 Affected —
1.1.4 Affected —
1.1.3 Affected —
1.1.2 Affected —
1.1.1 Affected —
1.1.0 Affected —
1.0.2 Affected —
1.0.1 Affected —
1.0.0 Affected —
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.8.0+dfsg1-7
sid Fixed 2.8.0+dfsg1-7
forky Fixed 2.8.0+dfsg1-7
bullseye Fixed 2.8.0+dfsg1-7
bookworm Fixed 2.8.0+dfsg1-7

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"23.0.1271.89"}
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.0
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.1
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.2
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.3
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.4
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.5
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.6
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.7
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.8
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.10
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.11
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.12
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.13
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.14
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.15
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.16
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.17
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.18
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.19
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.20
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.21
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.22
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.23
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.24
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.26
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.30
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.31
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.32
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.33
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.35
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.36
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.37
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.38
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.39
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.40
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.41
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.44
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.45
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.46
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.49
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.50
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.51
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.52
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.53
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.54
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.55
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.56
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.57
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.58
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.60
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.61
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.62
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.64
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.83
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.84
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.85
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.86
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.87
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.88
xmlsoftlibxml2{"endIncluding":"2.9.0"}
xmlsoftlibxml21.7.0
xmlsoftlibxml21.7.1
xmlsoftlibxml21.7.2
xmlsoftlibxml21.7.3
xmlsoftlibxml21.7.4
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.0
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.1
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.2
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.3
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.4
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.5
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.6
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.7
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.9
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.10
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.13
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.14
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.16
xmlsoftlibxml22.0.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.1.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.1.1
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.1
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.2
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.3
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.4
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.5
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.6
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.7
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.8
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.9
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.10
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.11
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.1
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.2
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.3
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.4
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.5
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.6
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.7
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.8
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.9
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.10
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.11
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.12
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.13
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.14
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.1
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.2
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.3
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.4
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.5
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.6
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.7
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.8
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.9
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.10
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.11
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.12
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.13
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.14
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.15
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.16
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.17
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.18
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.19
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.20
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.21
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.22
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.23
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.24
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.25
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.26
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.27
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.28
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.29
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.30
xmlsoftlibxml22.5.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.5.4
xmlsoftlibxml22.5.7
xmlsoftlibxml22.5.8
xmlsoftlibxml22.5.10
xmlsoftlibxml22.5.11
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.1
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.2
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.3
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.4
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.5
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.6
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.7
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.8
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.9
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.11
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.12
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.13
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.14
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.16
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.17
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.18
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.20
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.22
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.26
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.27
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.30
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.32
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.1
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.2
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.3
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.4
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.5
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.6
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.7
xmlsoftlibxml22.9.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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