Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2-debugsource  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-LIBXML2DEBUGSOURCE-2809135
  • published6 May 2022
  • disclosed3 May 2022

Introduced: 3 May 2022

CVE-2022-29824  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2-debugsource package and not the libxml2-debugsource package as distributed by Centos.

In libxml2 before 2.9.14, several buffer handling functions in buf.c (xmlBuf*) and tree.c (xmlBuffer*) don't check for integer overflows. This can result in out-of-bounds memory writes. Exploitation requires a victim to open a crafted, multi-gigabyte XML file. Other software using libxml2's buffer functions, for example libxslt through 1.1.35, is affected as well.

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