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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2022-40303: libxml2 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2022-40303: libxml2 security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/23/2022
Created
01/06/2023
Added
01/06/2023
Modified
01/06/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. When parsing a multi-gigabyte XML document with the XML_PARSE_HUGE parser option enabled, several integer counters can overflow. This results in an attempt to access an array at a negative 2GB offset, typically leading to a segmentation fault.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-libxml2
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-python3-libxml2

References

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