CVE-2025-24928 Affecting libxml2 package, versions <2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1.9+esm2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-LIBXML2-8738059
  • published21 Feb 2025
  • disclosed18 Feb 2025

Introduced: 18 Feb 2025

CVE-2025-24928  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 libxml2 to version 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1.9+esm2 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements in valid.c. To exploit this, DTD validation must occur for an untrusted document or untrusted DTD. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2017-9047.

CVSS Base Scores

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