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/[email protected]/thread/2NQ5GTDYOVH26PBCPYXXMGW5ZZXWMGZC/ - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/ENEHQIBMSI6TZVS35Y6I4FCTYUQDLJVP/ - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-24977 SRPMS: - 7/core/libxml2-2.9.9-2.5.mga7
Mageia 2021-0002: libxml2 security update
libxml2 v2.9.10 and earlier has a global Buffer Overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c (CVE-2020-24977)
Summary
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/[email protected]/thread/2NQ5GTDYOVH26PBCPYXXMGW5ZZXWMGZC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/ENEHQIBMSI6TZVS35Y6I4FCTYUQDLJVP/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-24977
Resolution
MGASA-2021-0002 - Updated libxml2 packages fix a security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 7/core/libxml2-2.9.9-2.5.mga7
Severity
Publication date: 04 Jan 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0002.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-24977
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