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Debian: CVE-2020-24977: libxml2 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-24977: libxml2 -- security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/04/2020
Created
09/12/2020
Added
09/11/2020
Modified
10/21/2020

Description

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-libxml2

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