vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2025-49794)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 16, 2025
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Jan 23, 2026

Description

A Heap Use After Free (UAF) vulnerability was discovered in the Schematron in the libxml2. The issue arises in the xmlSchematronGetNode function when processing XPath expressions in Schematron schema elements <sch:name path="..."/>, where a pointer to freed memory is returned and then accessed, leading to undefined behavior and potential crashes.

The xmlSchematronGetNode function extracts a pointer to a node from an XPath node set and then immediately frees the entire XPath object containing that node set, rendering the returned pointer invalid.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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