CVE-2013-2877: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

July 10, 2013 (updated October 9, 2018)

parser.c in libxml2, as used in Google Chrome 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

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2877

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