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Lack of data validation In libxml2

Description

xmlregexp in libxml2 before 2.15.4 has a NULL pointer dereference in xmlRegNewParserCtxt after a strdup failure, i.e., it does not calculate a string length after NULL checking.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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