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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 a…

High CVSS 7.5
CVECVE-2022-40303
First seen2026-10-14 19:01 UTC
Disclosed2022-11-23 00:15 UTC
Last updated2026-10-14 19:01 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

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.

In-depth triage

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

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Sources

  • NVD DATABASE

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Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD