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Buffer Over-read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-LIBXML2-10223026
  • published22 May 2025
  • disclosed8 May 2024
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Introduced: 8 May 2024

CVE-2024-34459  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-126  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in xmllint (from libxml2) before 2.11.8 and 2.12.x before 2.12.7. Formatting error messages with xmllint --htmlout can result in a buffer over-read in xmlHTMLPrintFileContext in xmllint.c.

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