CVE-2017-9048

libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. The function xmlSnprintfElementContent in valid.c is supposed to recursively dump the element content definition into a char buffer 'buf' of size 'size'. At the end of the routine, the function may strcat two more characters without checking whether the current strlen(buf) + 2 < size. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2, such as PHP, to crash.

• CWE-119
• CWE-119

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3952
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/15/1Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98556Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3952
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/15/1Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98556Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01

Published

May 18, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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