UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24977

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24977

    Published: 4 Sept 2020Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-24977
    Aliases:
    USN-4991-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-24977, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4991-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-24977

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxml2

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.13+esm2?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.13+esm2

    Affected versions

    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu2
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu3
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.1
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.2
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.3
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.4
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.5
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.7
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.8
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.9
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.10
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.11
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.12
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.13
    2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.13+esm1

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