CVE-2022-40303

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Oct 14, 2026

Description

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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CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-190

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Nov 23, 2022
Last modified: Oct 14, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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