DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4008

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 1
Upstream
CVE-2010-4008
Downstream
DSA-2128-1
Published: 17 Nov 2010, 01:00
Last modified:28 Apr 2026, 20:11

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

17 Nov 2010, 01:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
28 Apr 2026, 20:11
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

libxml2 before 2.7.8, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, Apple Safari 5.0.2 and earlier, and other products, reads from invalid memory locations during processing of malformed XPath expressions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted XML document.

Affected Systems

  • debian•libxml2

    < 2.7.8.dfsg-1 | < 2.7.8.dfsg-1 | < 2.7.8.dfsg-1 | < 2.7.8.dfsg-1

References (1)