RHSA-2025:2482 — Security Advisory

An update for libxml2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support.

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.

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

Security Fix(es):

• libxml2: Use-After-Free in libxml2 (CVE-2024-56171)

• libxml2: Stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements of libxml2 (CVE-2025-24928)

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.