RHSA-2022:5250MediumCVSS 7.4

Red Hat Security Advisory: libxml2 security update

Published
July 1, 2022
Last Modified
August 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-29824 →

📋 Description

CVE-2022-29824 — libxml2: integer overflows in xmlBuf and xmlBuffer lead to out-of-bounds write

🎯 Affected products47

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-devel-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-devel-0:2.9.13-1.el9_0.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
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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. Workaround: Avoid passing large inputs to the libxml2 library.

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