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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2022-40303: libxml2 security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 23, 2022
Added
Jan 6, 2023
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. When parsing a multi-gigabyte XML document with the XML_PARSE_HUGE parser option enabled, several integer counters can overflow. This results in an attempt to access an array at a negative 2GB offset, typically leading to a segmentation fault.

Solutions

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-libxml2huawei-euleros-2_0_sp11-upgrade-python3-libxml2
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