cve/2017/CVE-2017-5969.md

### [CVE-2017-5969](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5969)
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### Description

** DISPUTED ** libxml2 2.9.4, when used in recover mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted XML document.  NOTE: The maintainer states "I would disagree of a CVE with the Recover parsing option which should only be used for manual recovery at least for XML parser."

### POC

#### Reference
- https://hackerone.com/reports/262665

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/SoK-Vul4C/SoK
- https://github.com/holmes-py/reports-summary
- https://github.com/skdsfy/sok
- https://github.com/yuntongzhang/senx-experiments