JLSEC-2025-70

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Source

https://github.com/JuliaLang/SecurityAdvisories.jl/blob/main/advisories/published/2025/JLSEC-2025-70.md

Import Source

https://github.com/JuliaLang/SecurityAdvisories.jl/tree/generated/osv/2025/JLSEC-2025-70.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/JLSEC-2025-70

Upstream

CVE-2021-3537

Published

2025-10-17T17:40:51.659Z

Modified

2025-11-06T23:02:51.692032Z

Summary

A vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors wh...

Details

A vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content, causing a NULL dereference. If an untrusted XML document was parsed in recovery mode and post-validated, the flaw could be used to crash the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Database specific

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    "sources": [
        {
            "published": "2021-05-14T20:15:16.553Z",
            "id": "CVE-2021-3537",
            "html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3537",
            "imported": "2025-10-28T18:09:07.775Z",
            "url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2021-3537",
            "modified": "2024-11-21T06:21:47.317Z"
        }
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    "license": "CC-BY-4.0"
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References

Affected packages

Julia / XML2_jll

Package

Name: XML2_jll
Purl: pkg:julia/XML2_jll?uuid=02c8fc9c-b97f-50b9-bbe4-9be30ff0a78a

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.9.12+0