Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libxml2-devel package, versions <2.9.7-3.25.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBXML2DEVEL-2703504
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed11 Sept 2020

Introduced: 11 Sep 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 libxml2-devel to version 2.9.7-3.25.1 or higher.

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 SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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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