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libxml2 — security advisory
An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.11.7 and 2.12.x before 2.12.5. When using the XML Reader interface with DTD validation and XInclude expansion enabled, processing crafted XML documents can lead to an xmlValidatePopElement use-after-free.
- Products
- libxml2
- Affected versions
- 2.9.14+dfsg-1.2, 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u1
- Fixed versions
- 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-1, 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u2
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-25062
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 16:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.11.7 and 2.12.x before 2.12.5. When using the XML Reader interface with DTD validation and XInclude expansion enabled, processing crafted XML documents can lead to an xmlValidatePopElement use-after-free.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2024-25062
libxml2
Fixed versions: 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u2
libxml2
Fixed versions: 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-1
libxml2
Fixed versions: 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-1
Complete source record
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