Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting libxml2-devel package, versions <0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LIBXML2DEVEL-6204581
  • published26 Jan 2024
  • disclosed14 Oct 2022

Introduced: 14 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-40303  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 libxml2-devel to version 0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:0413.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2-devel package and not the libxml2-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. When parsing a multi-gigabyte XML document with the XML_PARSE_HUGE parser option enabled, several integer counters can overflow. This results in an attempt to access an array at a negative 2GB offset, typically leading to a segmentation fault.

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