CVE-2010-4494

high

Description

Double free vulnerability in libxml2 2.7.8 and other versions, as used in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.215 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to XPath handling.

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=63444

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00003.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055775.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0217.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/40775

http://secunia.com/advisories/42472

http://secunia.com/advisories/42721

http://secunia.com/advisories/42762

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11916

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4554

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4564

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4581

http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2137

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:260

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1749.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3319

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3336

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0230

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-12-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High