VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0841

medium
Published 2012-12-21 · 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
5.0

Description

libxml2 before 2.8.0 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data.

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
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.7.8.dfsg-8
debian debianbullseyefixed2.7.8.dfsg-8
debian debianforkyfixed2.7.8.dfsg-8
debian debiansidfixed2.7.8.dfsg-8
debian debiantrixiefixed2.7.8.dfsg-8
macos macosaffected
macos macos1.0.0affected
macos macos1.0.1affected
macos macos1.0.2affected
macos macos1.1.0affected
macos macos1.1.1affected
macos macos1.1.2affected
macos macos1.1.3affected
macos macos1.1.4affected
macos macos1.1.5affected
macos macos2.0affected
macos macos2.0.0affected
macos macos2.0.1affected
macos macos2.0.2affected
macos macos2.1affected
macos macos2.1.1affected
macos macos2.2affected
macos macos2.2.1affected
macos macos3.0affected
macos macos3.0.1affected
macos macos3.1affected
macos macos3.1.2affected
macos macos3.1.3affected
macos macos3.2affected
macos macos3.2.1affected
macos macos3.2.2affected
macos macos4.0affected
macos macos4.0.1affected
macos macos4.0.2affected
macos macos4.1affected
macos macos4.2.1affected
macos macos4.2.5affected
macos macos4.2.8affected
macos macos4.3.0affected
macos macos4.3.1affected
macos macos4.3.2affected
macos macos4.3.3affected
macos macos4.3.5affected
macos macos5.0affected
macos macos5.0.1affected
macos macos5.1affected
macos macos5.1.1affected
macos macos6.0affected
macos macos6.0.1affected
macos macos6.0.2affected
macos macos6.1affected
macos macos6.1.2affected
macos macos6.1.3affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
xmlsoftlibxml2{"endIncluding":"2.7.8"}
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
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.21
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.22
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.23
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.24
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.25
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.26
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.27
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.28
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.29
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.30
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.31
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

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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