CVE-2021-21828: Att Xmill

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the XML Decompression DecodeTreeBlock functionality of AT&T Labs Xmill 0.7. In the default case of DecodeTreeBlock a label is created via CurPath::AddLabel in order to track the label for later reference. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

  • Att Xmill: version 0.7 only

Published 2021-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.