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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2022-29824): libxml2 vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 3, 2022
Added
May 17, 2022
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxml2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxml2-utilsubuntu-upgrade-libxml2ubuntu-upgrade-libxml2-utils
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