RHSA-2024:0413MediumCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: libxml2 security update

Published
January 25, 2024
Last Modified
August 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (5)

CVE-2022-40304 →CVE-2023-28484 →CVE-2023-29469 →CVE-2023-39615 →CVE-2022-40303 →

📋 Description

CVE-2022-40303 — libxml2: integer overflows with XML_PARSE_HUGE CVE-2022-40304 — libxml2: dict corruption caused by entity reference cycles CVE-2023-28484 — libxml2: NULL dereference in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType CVE-2023-29469 — libxml2: Hashing of empty dict strings isn't deterministic CVE-2023-39615 — libxml2: crafted xml can cause global buffer overflow

🎯 Affected products47

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debuginfo-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-debugsource-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-devel-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
  • libxml2-devel-0:2.9.7-13.el8_6.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6)
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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 (8)