DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24977

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-24977
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24977.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24977
Upstream
Published
2020-09-04T00:15:10Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:47Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.10+dfsg-6.2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:12 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.10+dfsg-6.2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:13 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.10+dfsg-6.2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:14 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.10+dfsg-6.2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}