An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. When parsing a multi-gigabyte XML document with the XML_PARSE_HUGE parser option enabled, several integer counters can overflow. This results in an attempt to access an array at a negative 2GB offset, typically leading to a segmentation fault.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-11-22T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:14:40.053Z

Reserved: 2022-09-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-40303

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-23T00:15:11.007

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:21:16.087

Link: CVE-2022-40303

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-10-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-40303 - Bugzilla