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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2020:1465-1 Moderate: libxml2 Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A security patch for openSUSE concerning libxml2 resolves a significant buffer overflow issue.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-24977: Fixed a global-buffer-overflow in

xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal (bsc#1176179).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1465=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

libxml2-2-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

libxml2-2-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

libxml2-debugsource-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

libxml2-devel-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

libxml2-tools-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

libxml2-tools-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

python-libxml2-python-debugsource-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

python2-libxml2-python-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

python2-libxml2-python-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

python3-libxml2-python-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

python3-libxml2-python-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

libxml2-doc-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

libxml2-2-32bit-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

libxml2-2-32bit-debuginfo-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

libxml2-devel-32bit-2.9.7-lp152.10.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24977.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176179

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1465-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2

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