vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2025-32414): libxml2 vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 8, 2025
Added
Apr 29, 2025
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

In libxml2 before 2.13.8 and 2.14.x before 2.14.2, out-of-bounds memory access can occur in the Python API (Python bindings) because of an incorrect return value. This occurs in xmlPythonFileRead and xmlPythonFileReadRaw because of a difference between bytes and characters.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxml2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-python-libxml2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-python3-libxml2ubuntu-upgrade-libxml2ubuntu-upgrade-python3-libxml2
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