vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2021-3537: Moderate: libxml2 security update (ALSA-2021-2569)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 14, 2021
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Sep 15, 2022

Description

A vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content, causing a NULL dereference. If an untrusted XML document was parsed in recovery mode and post-validated, the flaw could be used to crash the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution

alma-upgrade-libxml2-devel
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