Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2 (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-LIBXML2-8777637
- published27 Feb 2025
- disclosed18 Feb 2025
Introduced: 18 Feb 2025
CVE-2024-56171 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:7.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Centos.
libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a use-after-free in xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables and xmlSchemaBubbleIDCNodeTables in xmlschemas.c. To exploit this, a crafted XML document must be validated against an XML schema with certain identity constraints, or a crafted XML schema must be used.