Medium
Security advisory
GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-24977
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- 1 Nov 2026, 09:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.
osv:CVE-2020-24977
Complete source record
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