Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libxml2 package, versions [,2.13.8)
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- published8 May 2025
- disclosed21 Apr 2025
- creditMaks Verver
Introduced: 21 Apr 2025
CVE-2025-32414 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade libxml2 to version 2.13.8 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read in the xmlPythonFileRead() function in libxml.c, which exposes the application to a potentially exploitable crash, when parsing inputs involving malformed character encoding data.