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FreeBSD: VID-F5ABAFC0-FCF6-11EA-8758-E0D55E2A8BF9: libxml -- multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/21/2020
Created
09/24/2020
Added
09/23/2020
Modified
09/23/2020

Description

CVE mitre reports:

CVE-2019-20388

xmlSchemaPreRun in xmlschemas.c in libxml2 2.9.10 allows an xmlSchemaValidateStream memory leak.

CVE-2020-7595

xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.

CVE-2020-24977

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 and earlier have a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-libxml2

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