CVE-2020-24977
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · Out-of-bounds read
6.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactLow
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/50f06b3efb638efb0abd95dc62dca05ae67882c2 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/50f06b3efb638efb0abd95dc62dca05ae67882c2Patch
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/178Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00036.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00061.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2NQ5GTDYOVH26PBCPYXXMGW5ZZXWMGZC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5KTUAGDLEHTH6HU66HBFAFTSQ3OKRAN3/