CVE-2024-34459

HIGH7.5EPSS 4.2%

libxml2 - security update

Published: 5/14/2024Modified: 12/3/2025

Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2024-34459

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.

Affected packages (3)

Alpine/libxml2from 0, < 2.11.8-r0
Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u8
Debian/libxml2from 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

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-34459
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-34459