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Red Hat: CVE-2020-7595: infinite loop in xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in some end-of-file situations (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2020-7595: infinite loop in xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in some end-of-file situations (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/21/2020
Created
10/01/2020
Added
10/01/2020
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-libxml2
  • redhat-upgrade-libxml2-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libxml2-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-libxml2-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-libxml2-python
  • redhat-upgrade-libxml2-static
  • redhat-upgrade-python3-libxml2
  • redhat-upgrade-python3-libxml2-debuginfo

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