Advisories » MGASA-2024-0211

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 06 Jun 2024
Modification date: 06 Jun 2024
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 9
CVE: CVE-2024-34459

Description

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability:
An issue was discovered in xmllint (from libxml2) before 2.11.8 and
2.12.x before 2.12.7. Formatting error messages with xmllint --htmlout
can result in a buffer over-read in xmlHTMLPrintFileContext in
xmllint.c. (CVE-2024-34459)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33238
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/INKSSLW5VMZIXHRPZBAW4TJUX5SQKARG/
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/720
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-34459

SRPMS

9/core

• libxml2-2.10.4-1.4.mga9