Mageia 2021-0002: libxml2 security update

Date 04 Jan 2021

Category Mageia Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

libxml2 v2.9.10 and earlier has a global Buffer Overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c (CVE-2020-24977). References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27300

MGASA-2021-0002 - Updated libxml2 packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 04 Jan 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0002.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2020-24977

libxml2 v2.9.10 and earlier has a global Buffer Overflow vulnerability in
xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c (CVE-2020-24977).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27300
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./thread/2NQ5GTDYOVH26PBCPYXXMGW5ZZXWMGZC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./thread/ENEHQIBMSI6TZVS35Y6I4FCTYUQDLJVP/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-24977

SRPMS:
- 7/core/libxml2-2.9.9-2.5.mga7