Medium ELSA-2020-4479 3 CVEs

Moderate: libxml2 security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Nov 10, 2020 · Updated Nov 10, 2020

Ecosystem: Oracle Linux

Summary

[2.9.7-8.0.1]
- Update doc/redhat.gif in tarball
- Add libxml2-oracle-enterprise.patch and update logos in tarball

[2.9.7-8]
- Fix CVE-2019-19956 (#1793001)
- Fix CVE-2020-7595 (#1799786)
- Fix CVE-2019-20388 (#1810058)

Fixed packages 3

Release	Package	Fixed in
Oracle Linux · 8	libxml2	0:2.9.7-8.0.1.el8
Oracle Linux · 8	libxml2-devel	0:2.9.7-8.0.1.el8
Oracle Linux · 8	python3-libxml2	0:2.9.7-8.0.1.el8

Vulnerabilities 3

High 7.5

CVE-2019-19956

xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.10 has a memory leak related to newDoc->oldNs.

libxml2 libxml2 libxml2 Debian Ubuntu Alpine

Dec 24, 2019
High 7.5

CVE-2019-20388

xmlSchemaPreRun in xmlschemas.c in libxml2 2.9.10 allows an xmlSchemaValidateStream memory leak.

libxml2 libxml2 libxml2 Debian Ubuntu Alpine

Jan 21, 2020
High 7.5

CVE-2020-7595

libxml as used in Nokogiri has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation

xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.

libxml2 libxml2 nokogiri libxml2 Debian Ubuntu Alpine RubyGems

Jan 21, 2020