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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2022-40304: libxml2 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2022-40304: libxml2 security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/23/2022
Created
02/14/2023
Added
02/13/2023
Modified
02/13/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. Certain invalid XML entity definitions can corrupt a hash table key, potentially leading to subsequent logic errors. In one case, a double-free can be provoked.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp10-upgrade-libxml2
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp10-upgrade-python3-libxml2

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