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Ubuntu: USN-7302-1 (CVE-2024-56171): libxml2 vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-7302-1 (CVE-2024-56171): libxml2 vulnerabilities

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/18/2025
Created
03/10/2025
Added
02/26/2025
Modified
03/06/2025

Description

libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a use-after-free in xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables and xmlSchemaBubbleIDCNodeTables in xmlschemas.c. To exploit this, a crafted XML document must be validated against an XML schema with certain identity constraints, or a crafted XML schema must be used.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxml2

References

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