Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python3-libxml2 (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-PYTHON3LIBXML2-11447732
published5 Aug 2025
disclosed3 May 2022

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Introduced: 3 May 2022

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

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3-libxml2 package and not the python3-libxml2 package as distributed by RHEL.

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.