CVE-2024-34393 — libxmljs2 is vulnerable to a type confusion vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted XML while…

Description

libxmljs2 is vulnerable to a type confusion vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted XML while invoking a function on the result of attrs() that was called on a parsed node. This vulnerability might lead to denial of service (on both 32-bit systems and 64-bit systems), data leak, infinite loop and remote code execution (on 32-bit systems with the XML_PARSE_HUGE flag enabled).

References

• https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/libxmljs2-attrs-type-confusion-rce-jfsa-2024-001034097/
• https://github.com/marudor/libxmljs2/issues/204
• https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/libxmljs2-attrs-type-confusion-rce-jfsa-2024-001034097/