CVE-2024-25062

Publication date 4 February 2024

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libxml2 23.10 mantic
Fixed 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.4
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.7
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
libxml2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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