GHSA-773h-w45w-f2f9

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    GHSA-773h-w45w-f2f9

    Published: 3 May 2022Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary: Denial of service vulnerability exists in libxmljs

    Details: libxmljs provides libxml bindings for v8 javascript engine. This affects all versions of package libxmljs. When invoking the libxmljs.parseXml function with a non-buffer argument the V8 code will attempt invoking the .toString method of the argument. If the argument's toString value is not a Function object V8 will crash.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21144, https://github.com/libxmljs/libxmljs/pull/594, https://github.com/libxmljs/libxmljs/commit/2501807bde9b38cfaed06d1e140487516d91379d, https://github.com/libxmljs/libxmljs, https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-LIBXMLJS-2348756

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxmljs

    Purl: pkg:npm/libxmljs

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.19.8

    Affected versions

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