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Rocky Linux: CVE-2025-24928: libxml2 (RLSA-2025-2686)

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Rocky Linux: CVE-2025-24928: libxml2 (RLSA-2025-2686)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
02/18/2025
Created
05/12/2025
Added
05/08/2025
Modified
05/08/2025

Description

libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements in valid.c. To exploit this, DTD validation must occur for an untrusted document or untrusted DTD. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2017-9047.

Solution(s)

  • rocky-upgrade-libxml2
  • rocky-upgrade-libxml2-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-libxml2-debugsource
  • rocky-upgrade-libxml2-devel
  • rocky-upgrade-python3-libxml2
  • rocky-upgrade-python3-libxml2-debuginfo

References

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