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.
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"id": "CVE-2021-3537",
"published": "2021-05-14T20:15:16.553Z",
"imported": "2026-07-17T21:05:00.549Z",
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2021-3537",
"modified": "2026-06-17T04:05:18.547Z",
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3537",
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"status": "Modified"
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