vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-56171: Important priority package update for libxml2

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 18, 2025
Added
Mar 27, 2025
Modified
Jul 17, 2025

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.
A flaw was found in libxml2. This vulnerability allows a use-after-free via a crafted XML document validated against an XML schema with certain identity constraints or a crafted XML schema.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libxml2amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libxml2-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libxml2-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libxml2-develamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libxml2-staticamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-python3-libxml2amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-python3-libxml2-debuginfo
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