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Mageia 8 & 9: 2023-0298 Critical Libxml2 Use-After-Free Advisory

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Calendar Grey October 22, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2023-0301: Patches for OpenSSL address a major buffer overflow issue impacting several versions.
libxml2 through 2.11.5 has a use-after-free that can only occur after a certain memory allocation fails

Summary

libxml2 through 2.11.5 has a use-after-free that can only occur after a certain memory allocation fails. This occurs in xmlUnlinkNode in tree.c. (CVE-2023-45322)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32364

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/06/5

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-45322

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/libxml2-2.10.4-1.2.mga9

- 8/core/libxml2-2.9.10-7.9.mga8

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Publication date: 22 Oct 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0298.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-45322

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