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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-24977: Moderate: libxml2 security update (ALSA-2021-1597)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-24977: Moderate: libxml2 security update (ALSA-2021-1597)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/04/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-libxml2
  • alma-upgrade-libxml2-devel
  • alma-upgrade-python3-libxml2

References

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