A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-07-19T13:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-12-03T21:07:59.321Z
Reserved: 2018-07-19T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2018-14404
Updated: 2024-08-05T09:29:51.525Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-07-19T13:29:00.480
Modified: 2025-12-03T21:15:48.723
Link: CVE-2018-14404