libxml vulnerability and interesting integer issues
Scary Beasts Security
MAY 27, 2011
A while ago, I was playing with grammar-based XPath fuzzing and I found and fixed an interesting libxml bug. The commit, for the curious, is here: [link] The trigger for this bug was the XPath expression: //@*/preceding::node()/ancestor::node()/ancestor::foo['foo'] which for some reason I haven't yet analyzed leads to a pathologically large collection of nodes within libxml.
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