CVE-2020-24977

MEDIUM

Xmlsoft Libxml2 < 8.0.26 - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.

References (21)

Core 21
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/178
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00036.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00061.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-05
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200924-0001/
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0054
EPSS Percentile 67.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (25)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 31
fedoraproject/fedora 32
fedoraproject/fedora 33
netapp/active_iq_unified_manager 7.3
netapp/active_iq_unified_manager 9.5
netapp/clustered_data_ontap
netapp/clustered_data_ontap_antivirus_connector
netapp/hci_h410c_firmware
netapp/inventory_collect_tool
... and 15 more
Published Sep 04, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026