Updated libxml2 packages fix a security vulnerability
Publication date: 04 Jan 2021Modification date: 04 Jan 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-24977
Description
libxml2 v2.9.10 and earlier has a global Buffer Overflow vulnerability in
xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c (CVE-2020-24977).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27300
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/2NQ5GTDYOVH26PBCPYXXMGW5ZZXWMGZC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/ENEHQIBMSI6TZVS35Y6I4FCTYUQDLJVP/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-24977
SRPMS
7/core
- libxml2-2.9.9-2.5.mga7