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Debian 11: DLA-4251-1 libxml2 Important Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2025
Dist Debian Esm H88
Significant vulnerabilities detected in libxml2 could result in DoS and possible code execution risks. Update immediately to safeguard your environment.
Multiple security issues were found in libxml2, the GNOME XML library, which could yield to denial of service or potentially arbitrary code execution

Summary

CVE-2024-34459

Zhineng Zhong discovered that formatting error messages with `xmllint
--htmlout` could result in a buffer over-read.

CVE-2025-6021

Ahmed Lekssays discovered an integer overflow issue in
`xmlBuildQName()` which could result in memory corruption or a
denial of service when processing crafted input.

CVE-2025-6170

Ahmed Lekssays discovered a stack-based buffer overflow issue in the
command-parsing logic of the interactive shell in xmllint.

CVE-2025-49794

Nikita Sveshnikov discovered a heap use-after-free issue in the
schematron. When processing XPath expressions in Schematron schema
elements ``, a pointer to freed memory is
returned and then accessed, leading to undefined behavior or
potential crashes.

CVE-2025-49796

Nikita Sveshnikov discovered a type confusion issue in the
schematron. Processing `sch:name` elements and accessing namespace
information may lead to leading to memory corruption or undefined
behavior.

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Package: libxml2
Version: 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u8
CVE ID: CVE-2024-34459 CVE-2025-6021 CVE-2025-6170 CVE-2025-49794
Debian Bug: 1071162 1107720 1107755 1107938

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