CVE-2013-2877 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-2877?

CVE-2013-2877 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 10 Jul 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.0, as used in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a document that ends abruptly, related to the lack of certain checks for the XML_PARSER_EOF state.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-2877?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Google Chrome, Xmlsoft Libxml2.

How do I fix CVE-2013-2877?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2013-2877 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-2877 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2877, DSA-2779-1, GHSA-fx83-qvvj-7h25, MGASA-2013-0218.