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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-25062: Use After Free

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/04/2024
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
06/11/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.11.7 and 2.12.x before 2.12.5. When using the XML Reader interface with DTD validation and XInclude expansion enabled, processing crafted XML documents can lead to an xmlValidatePopElement use-after-free.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libxml2

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