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SUSE: CVE-2020-24977: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/04/2020
Created
09/15/2020
Added
09/12/2020
Modified
10/22/2021

Description

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libxml2
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-2
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-2-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-doc
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-python
  • suse-upgrade-libxml2-tools
  • suse-upgrade-python-libxml2
  • suse-upgrade-python2-libxml2-python
  • suse-upgrade-python3-libxml2-python

References

  • SUSE-SU-2020:2609-1
  • SUSE-SU-2020:2612-1
  • SUSE-SU-2021:14729-1
  • CVE-2020-24977
  • USN-4991-1

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