CVE-2024-34459
libxml2 - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 4.2%
Description
An issue was discovered in xmllint (from libxml2) before 2.11.8 and 2.12.x before 2.12.7. Formatting error messages with xmllint --htmlout can result in a buffer over-read in xmlHTMLPrintFileContext in xmllint.c.
How to fix CVE-2024-34459
To remediate CVE-2024-34459, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/libxml2—upgrade to 2.11.8-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u8 or later
- —upgrade to 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u8 or later
Is CVE-2024-34459 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 4.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 2.11.8-r0
- from 0, < 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u8
- from 0, < 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u8
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |