A vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content, causing a NULL dereference. If an untrusted XML document was parsed in recovery mode and post-validated, the flaw could be used to crash the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2021-05-14T19:50:10.000Z
Updated: 2026-10-14T09:49:44.455Z
Reserved: 2021-05-05T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2021-3537
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Status : Modified
Published: 2021-05-14T20:15:16.553
Modified: 2026-10-14T10:17:45.043
Link: CVE-2021-3537