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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-34459: Vulnerability in Libxml2

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-34459: Vulnerability in Libxml2

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/06/2024
Created
06/11/2024
Added
06/06/2024
Modified
06/11/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libxml2

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