16/1/2025

USN-7215-1: libxml2 vulnerability

First published: Thu Jan 16 2025(Updated: )

Xisco Fauli discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled custom SAX handlers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform XML External Entity (XXE) attacks.

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
All of
ubuntu/libxml2	<2.12.7+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1	2.12.7+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=24.10

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(Contains the following vulnerabilities)

CVE-2024-40896

collector/usn
source/Ubuntu
agent/software-canonical-lookup
agent/references
agent/severity
agent/last-modified-date
agent/title
agent/softwarecombine
agent/first-publish-date
agent/type
agent/description
agent/event
agent/tags
agent/source
package-manager/ubuntu
vendor/ubuntu
canonical/ubuntu ubuntu
version/ubuntu ubuntu/24.10

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