Re: [xml] Potential NULL pointer dereference in xmlregexp.c

[Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer aevum de>]

On 04/03/2019 20:37, Shaobo He via xml wrote:
> I'm Shaobo He, a graduate student at University of Utah. I'm running a static 
> analysis tool on libxml2 and noticed there may be a NULL pointer dereference 
> in function `xmlRegexpIsDeterminist`. Basically, function `xmlNewAutomata` can 
> return a NULL pointer when malloc fails. Please let me know if it makes sense 
> or not.

Thanks for the report. Fixed here:

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/09797c13

Nick