Mageia 2021-0213 Critical: libxml2 Buffer Overflow and Other Issues
mageia
May 19, 2021
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: Use-after-free in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in entities.c
Summary
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities:
Use-after-free in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in entities.c.
(CVE-2021-3516)
Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in
entities.c. (CVE-2021-3517)
Use-after-free in xmlXIncludeDoProcess() in xinclude.c.
(CVE-2021-3518)
NULL pointer dereference in valid.c in xmlValidBuildAContentModel.
(CVE-2021-3537)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28902
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00008.html
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- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QVM4UJ3376I6ZVOYMHBNX4GY3NIV52WV/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3516
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3517
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3518
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3537
Resolution
SRPMS
- 8/core/libxml2-2.9.10-7.1.mga8
- 7/core/libxml2-2.9.9-2.6.mga7
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Publication date: 19 May 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0213.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-3516,
CVE-2021-3517,
CVE-2021-3518,
CVE-2021-3537
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