CVE-2012-5134

medium
Published 2012-11-28 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5134

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.8.0+dfsg1-7
debian debianbullseyefixed2.8.0+dfsg1-7
debian debianforkyfixed2.8.0+dfsg1-7
debian debiansidfixed2.8.0+dfsg1-7
debian debiantrixiefixed2.8.0+dfsg1-7
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
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
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xmlsoftlibxml22.0.0
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xmlsoftlibxml22.9.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.