MGASA-2021-0213

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    MGASA-2021-0213

    Published: 19 May 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: Use-after-free in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in entities.c. (CVE-2021-3516) Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in entities.c. (CVE-2021-3517) Use-after-free in xmlXIncludeDoProcess() in xinclude.c. (CVE-2021-3518) NULL pointer dereference in valid.c in xmlValidBuildAContentModel. (CVE-2021-3537)

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0213.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28902, https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2653, https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HLCJPB5W3FKJ7HO6DH6UVA3GP6IVZ37L/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QVM4UJ3376I6ZVOYMHBNX4GY3NIV52WV/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxml2

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/libxml2?arch=source&distro=mageia-7

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.9.9-2.6.mga7

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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