RHSA-2020:4479: Moderate: libxml2 security update

First published: Tue Nov 03 2020(Updated: )

The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> libxml2: memory leak in xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c (CVE-2019-19956)</li> <li> libxml2: memory leak in xmlSchemaPreRun in xmlschemas.c (CVE-2019-20388)</li> <li> libxml2: infinite loop in xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in some end-of-file situations (CVE-2020-7595)</li> For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.<br>Additional Changes:<br>For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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