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GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 and earlier have a global...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 and earlier have a global Buffer Overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 8e7c20a1 (20910-GITv2.9.10-103-g8e7c20a1).

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 4, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-24977

GHSA ID

GHSA-w4m9-3rvp-7fhj

Source code

No known source code

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