CVE-2020-24977

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-24977

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:1597

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24977.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202011-15

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.9.10-6
suse slesaffected
rockylinux rocky8fixed
debian debianbookwormfixed2.9.10+dfsg-6.2
debian debianbullseyefixed2.9.10+dfsg-6.2
debian debianforkyfixed2.9.10+dfsg-6.2
debian debiansidfixed2.9.10+dfsg-6.2
debian debiantrixiefixed2.9.10+dfsg-6.2

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.