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Debian: CVE-2024-34459: libxml2 -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 14, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in xmllint (from libxml2) before 2.11.8 and 2.12.x before 2.12.7. Formatting error messages with xmllint --htmlout can result in a buffer over-read in xmlHTMLPrintFileContext in xmllint.c.

Solution

debian-upgrade-libxml2
Title
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