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Alma Linux: CVE-2024-56171: Important: libxml2 security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
Feb 18, 2025
Added
Mar 14, 2025
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a use-after-free in xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables and xmlSchemaBubbleIDCNodeTables in xmlschemas.c. To exploit this, a crafted XML document must be validated against an XML schema with certain identity constraints, or a crafted XML schema must be used.

Solutions

alma-upgrade-libxml2alma-upgrade-libxml2-develalma-upgrade-python3-libxml2
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