RHSA-2024:0413 — Security Advisory

An update for libxml2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards.

Security Fix(es):

• libxml2: integer overflows with XML_PARSE_HUGE (CVE-2022-40303)

• libxml2: dict corruption caused by entity reference cycles (CVE-2022-40304)

• libxml2: NULL dereference in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType (CVE-2023-28484)

• libxml2: Hashing of empty dict strings isn't deterministic (CVE-2023-29469)

• libxml2: crafted xml can cause global buffer overflow (CVE-2023-39615)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.