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Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libxml2 package, versions <2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.7+esm1

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.3% (70th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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SUSE
5.3 medium
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Red Hat
6.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-LIBXML2-609728
  • published 4 Sep 2020
  • disclosed 4 Sep 2020
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Introduced: 4 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-24977 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-125 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 libxml2 to version 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.7+esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.

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