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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-7595: Moderate: libxml2 security update (ALSA-2020-4479)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-7595: Moderate: libxml2 security update (ALSA-2020-4479)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/21/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.

Solution(s)

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

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