Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libxml2 package, versions <2.9.10+dfsg-6.2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LIBXML2-1551382
  • published5 Sept 2020
  • disclosed4 Sept 2020

Introduced: 4 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-24977  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 libxml2 to version 2.9.10+dfsg-6.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.

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