Vulnerability CVE-2022-40304
Published: 2022-11-23

Description:
An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. Certain invalid XML entity definitions can corrupt a hash table key, potentially leading to subsequent logic errors. In one case, a double-free can be provoked.

 References:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/tags/v2.10.3
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/1b41ec4e9433b05bb0376be4725804c54ef1d80b
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/tags
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