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Mageia 9: MGASA-2024-0172 Critical: Libxml2 Use-After-Free

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2024
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia has issued a security notice regarding a vulnerability in libxml2 that impacts all versions released before 2.11.7 and 2.12.5.
An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.11.7 and 2.12.x before 2.12.5

Summary

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.11.7 and 2.12.x before 2.12.5. When using the XML Reader interface with DTD validation and XInclude expansion enabled, processing crafted XML documents can lead to an xmlValidatePopElement use-after-free. (CVE-2024-25062)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33184

- https://lwn.net/Articles/972329/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-25062

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical security patch libxml2 XML processing use-after-free Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/libxml2-2.10.4-1.3.mga9

Severity
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Publication date: 09 May 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0172.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-25062

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical security patch libxml2 XML processing use-after-free Mageia

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