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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2022-29824) ELSA-2022-5317: libxml2 security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2022-29824) ELSA-2022-5317: libxml2 security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/03/2022
Created
07/16/2022
Added
07/02/2022
Modified
07/02/2022

Description

In libxml2 before 2.9.14, several buffer handling functions in buf.c (xmlBuf*) and tree.c (xmlBuffer*) don't check for integer overflows. This can result in out-of-bounds memory writes. Exploitation requires a victim to open a crafted, multi-gigabyte XML file. Other software using libxml2's buffer functions, for example libxslt through 1.1.35, is affected as well.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libxml2
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libxml2-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-python3-libxml2

References

  • ELSA-2022-5317
  • CVE-2022-29824
  • USN-5422-1

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