CVE-2020-24977
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
5.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-24977
Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:1597
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24977.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202011-15
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 2.9.10-6 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| rocky | 8 | fixed | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-6.2 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-6.2 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-6.2 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-6.2 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-6.2 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.