vulnerability

IBM AIX: libxml2_advisory6 (CVE-2024-25062): Vulnerability in libxml2 affects AIX

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 4, 2024
Added
May 10, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.11.7 and 2.12.x before 2.12.5. When using the XML Reader interface with DTD validation and XInclude expansion enabled, processing crafted XML documents can lead to an xmlValidatePopElement use-after-free.

Solution

ibm-aix-libxml2_advisory6
Title
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