vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-25062): libxml2 vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 4, 2024
Added
Feb 27, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 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.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxml2ubuntu-upgrade-libxml2
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