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libxml2 -- Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected packages
		libxml2	<	2.13.6

Details

VuXML ID	fdd02be0-3e50-11f0-95d4-00a098b42aeb
Discovery	2025-02-18
Entry	2025-05-31

cve@mitre.org reports:

libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements in valid.c. To exploit this, DTD validation must occur for an untrusted document or untrusted DTD. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2017-9047.

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References

CVE Name	CVE-2025-24928
URL	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24928