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CVE-2010-4494

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4494 describes a double free vulnerability in libxml2 versions, including 2.7.8, impacting products like Google Chrome and various Linux distributions. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 7.5, allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause a denial of service and potentially other unspecified impacts through crafted XPath handling. While the risk score is moderate, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 8.0.552.215CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2.7.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:itunes:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 5.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 4.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0753 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

denopatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 3.3
View patch
libreofficepatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 3.3
View patch
nessuspatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 3.3
postgresqlpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 3.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mingw32-libxml2-0:2.7.6-6.el6_3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (5)

redhatCVE-2010-4494Low

libxml2: double-free in XPath processing code

Nov 17, 2010
denollm-deno-d2f54cb22e64ca74

Possible Security Vulnerability in OpenOffice.org resulting from 3rd party library LIBXML2

postgresqlllm-postgresql-582967850fba2385

Possible Security Vulnerability in OpenOffice.org resulting from 3rd party library LIBXML2

libreofficellm-libreoffice-1395057016491cac

Possible Security Vulnerability in OpenOffice.org resulting from 3rd party library LIBXML2

nessusllm-nessus-3d23cb8258cb4935

Possible Security Vulnerability in OpenOffice.org resulting from 3rd party library LIBXML2

References

code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00003.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055775.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
Third Party Advisory
marc.info
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0217.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/40775
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42472
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42721
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42762
Third Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11916
Third Party Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT4554
Third Party Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT4564
Third Party Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT4566
Broken Link
support.apple.com / kb/HT4581
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-2137
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
openoffice.org / security/cves/CVE-2010-4008_CVE-2010-4494.html
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-1749.html
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/3319
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/3336
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0230
Third Party Advisory