cve/2017/CVE-2017-5969.md

CVE-2017-5969

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