RHSA-2020:1190MediumCVSS 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: libxml2 security update

Published
March 31, 2020
Last Modified
October 14, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (6)

CVE-2015-8035 →CVE-2016-5131 →CVE-2017-15412 →CVE-2017-18258 →CVE-2018-14404 →CVE-2018-14567 →

📋 Description

CVE-2015-8035 — libxml2: DoS caused by incorrect error detection during XZ decompression CVE-2016-5131 — libxml2: Use after free triggered by XPointer paths beginning with range-to CVE-2017-15412 — libxml2: Use after free in xmlXPathCompOpEvalPositionalPredicate() function in xpath.c CVE-2017-18258 — libxml2: Unrestricted memory usage in xz_head() function in xzlib.c CVE-2018-14404 — libxml2: NULL pointer dereference in xmlXPathCompOpEval() function in xpath.c CVE-2018-14567 — libxml2: Infinite loop caused by incorrect error detection during LZMA decompression

🎯 Affected products84

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
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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 The desktop must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.

🔗 References (10)