CVE-2016-5131
8.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 3.7%
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in libxml2 through 2.9.4, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function.
How to fix CVE-2016-5131
To remediate CVE-2016-5131, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/libxml2—upgrade to 2.9.4-r1 or later
- Debian/libxml2—upgrade to 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1 or later
Is CVE-2016-5131 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 3.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2.9.4-r1
- from 0, < 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |