RHBA-2025:12345HighCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: libxml2 and libxslt bug fix and enhancement update

Published
July 31, 2025
Last Modified
August 13, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2025-7424 →CVE-2025-7425 →

📋 Description

CVE-2025-7424 — libxslt: Type confusion in xmlNode.psvi between stylesheet and source nodes CVE-2025-7425 — libxslt: libxml2: Heap Use-After-Free in libxslt caused by atype corruption in xmlAttrPtr

🎯 Affected products73

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • libxml2-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • libxml2-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • libxml2-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • libxml2-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • libxml2-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.12.5-8.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

🔗 References (2)