ALPINE-CVE-2025-49796

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-49796
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2025-49796.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2025-49796
Upstream
Published
2025-06-16T16:15:19Z
Modified
2026-08-27T22:18:02Z
Severity
  • 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

A vulnerability was found in libxml2. Processing certain sch:name elements from the input XML file can trigger a memory corruption issue. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious XML input file that can lead libxml to crash, resulting in a denial of service or other possible undefined behavior due to sensitive data being corrupted in memory.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.21 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.13.9-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2025-49796.json"

Alpine:v3.22 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.13.9-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2025-49796.json"

Alpine:v3.23 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.13.9-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2025-49796.json"

Alpine:v3.24 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.13.9-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2025-49796.json"