MGASA-2022-0177 - Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 12 May 2022 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0177.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 8 CVE: CVE-2022-29824 In libxml2 before 2.9.14, several buffer handling functions in buf.c (xmlBuf*) and tree.c (xmlBuffer*) don't check for integer overflows. This can result in out-of-bounds memory writes. Exploitation requires a victim to open a crafted, multi-gigabyte XML file. Other software using libxml2's buffer functions, for example libxslt through 1.1.35, is affected as well. (CVE-2022-29824) References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30394 - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/FZOBT5Y6Y2QLDDX2HZGMV7MJMWGXORKK/ - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29824 SRPMS: - 8/core/libxml2-2.9.10-7.4.mga8
Mageia 2022-0177: libxml2 security update
In libxml2 before 2.9.14, several buffer handling functions in buf.c (xmlBuf*) and tree.c (xmlBuffer*) don't check for integer overflows
Summary
In libxml2 before 2.9.14, several buffer handling functions in buf.c
(xmlBuf*) and tree.c (xmlBuffer*) don't check for integer overflows. This
can result in out-of-bounds memory writes. Exploitation requires a victim
to open a crafted, multi-gigabyte XML file. Other software using libxml2's
buffer functions, for example libxslt through 1.1.35, is affected as well.
(CVE-2022-29824)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30394
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/FZOBT5Y6Y2QLDDX2HZGMV7MJMWGXORKK/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29824
Resolution
MGASA-2022-0177 - Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 8/core/libxml2-2.9.10-7.4.mga8
Severity
Publication date: 12 May 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0177.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-29824
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