RHSA-2023:4349MediumCVSS 5.9

Red Hat Security Advisory: libxml2 security update

Published
August 1, 2023
Last Modified
August 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

📋 Description

CVE-2023-28484 — libxml2: NULL dereference in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType CVE-2023-29469 — libxml2: Hashing of empty dict strings isn't deterministic

🎯 Affected products47

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • libxml2-devel-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • libxml2-devel-0:2.9.13-3.el9_2.1.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.

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