vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-7743-1 (CVE-2025-9714): libxml2 vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Sep 4, 2025 | Sep 11, 2025 | Apr 16, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 4, 2025
Added
Sep 11, 2025
Modified
Apr 16, 2026
Description
Uncontrolled recursion in XPath evaluation in libxml2 up to and including version 2.9.14 allows a local attacker to cause a stack overflow via crafted expressions. XPath processing functions `xmlXPathRunEval`, `xmlXPathCtxtCompile`, and `xmlXPathEvalExpr` were resetting recursion depth to zero before making potentially recursive calls. When such functions were called recursively this could allow for uncontrolled recursion and lead to a stack overflow. These functions now preserve recursion depth across recursive calls, allowing recursion depth to be controlled.
Solutions
ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxml2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxml2-devubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxml2-utilsubuntu-upgrade-libxml2ubuntu-upgrade-libxml2-devubuntu-upgrade-libxml2-utils
References
- CVE-2025-9714
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2025-9714
- CWE-674
- EUVD-EUVD-2025-27609
- UBUNTU-USN-7743-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2392605
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2025-27609
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7743-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9714
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