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CVE-2010-4494 (GCVE-0-2010-4494)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-12-07 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:51
VLAI
Summary
Double free vulnerability in libxml2 2.7.8 and other versions, as used in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.215 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to XPath handling.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2010-12-02 00:00
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Sightings

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