Mageia 7: MGASA-2020-0101 Moderate: libxml2 Memory Leak and Loop Issues
mageia
February 24, 2020
Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities: xmlSchemaPreRun in xmlschemas.c in libxml2 2.9.10 allows an xmlSchemaValidateStream memory leak (CVE-2019-20388).
Summary
Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities:
xmlSchemaPreRun in xmlschemas.c in libxml2 2.9.10 allows an
xmlSchemaValidateStream memory leak (CVE-2019-20388).
xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite
loop in a certain end-of-file situation (CVE-2020-7595).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26222
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/545SPOI3ZPPNPX4TFRIVE4JVRTJRKULL/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20388
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7595
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/libxml2-2.9.9-2.3.mga7
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Publication date: 24 Feb 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0101.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-20388,
CVE-2020-7595
Topics Covered
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