CVE-2025-24928

Publication date 18 February 2025

Last updated 25 February 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements in valid.c. To exploit this, DTD validation must occur for an untrusted document or untrusted DTD. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2017-9047.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libxml2 24.10 oracular
Fixed 2.12.7+dfsg-3ubuntu0.2
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3ubuntu3.2
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.6
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.9
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
libxml2