CVE-2013-2877

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    CVE-2013-2877

    Published: 10 Jul 2013Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.0, as used in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a document that ends abruptly, related to the lack of certain checks for the XML_PARSER_EOF state.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/54172, http://secunia.com/advisories/55568, http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2724, http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2779, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1904-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1904-2, http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html, http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html, ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.9.0.tar.gz, http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e5d7f7e5dc21d3ae7be3cbb949ac4d8701e06de1, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00002.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00063.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00077.html, http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61050, https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=229019

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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