All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.17.1 of the package
Denial of service vulnerability exists in libxmljs
libxmljs provides libxml bindings for v8 javascript engine. This affects all versions of package libxmljs. When invoking the libxmljs.parseXml function with a non-buffer argument the V8 code will attempt invoking the .toString method of the argument. If the argument's toString value is not a Function object V8 will crash.
libxmljs vulnerable to type confusion when parsing specially crafted XML
libxmljs 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).
libxmljs vulnerable to type confusion when parsing specially crafted XML
libxmljs is vulnerable to a type confusion vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted XML while invoking the namespaces()
function (which invokes _wrap__xmlNode_nsDef_get()
) on a grand-child of a node that refers to an entity. This vulnerability can lead to denial of service and remote code execution.