RHSA-2025:12447 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: libxml2 security update
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Published · August 1, 2025
Updated · October 13, 2026
Topic
An update for libxml2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.
Description
The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards.
Security Fix(es):
- libxslt: Heap Use-After-Free in libxslt caused by atype corruption in xmlAttrPtr (CVE-2025-7425)
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.