CVE-2020-24977

Bug #1895839 reported by Sylvain Rabot
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
libxml2 (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
libxml2 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
Hirsute
Fix Released
High
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Bug Description

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 and earlier have a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-24977

Upstream patch:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/50f06b3efb638efb0abd95dc62dca05ae67882c2

Bug report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/178

CVE References

Alex Murray (alexmurray)
information type: Private Security → Public Security
description: updated
description: updated
Changed in libxml2 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in libxml2 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in libxml2 (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)
Changed in libxml2 (Ubuntu Hirsute):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Steve Beattie (sbeattie) wrote :

Please note that upstream has indicated that this issue only affects the xmllint binary, and not the shared library.

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