Red Hat alert RHSA-2025:2507-01 (libxml2) [LWN.net]

An update for libxml2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 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): * libxml: use-after-free in xmlXIncludeAddNode (CVE-2022-49043) * 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. This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

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