Bug 2280532 (CVE-2024-34459) - CVE-2024-34459 libxml2: buffer over-read in xmlHTMLPrintFileContext in xmllint.c
Summary: CVE-2024-34459 libxml2: buffer over-read in xmlHTMLPrintFileContext in xmllint.c
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-34459
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2280534 2280535 2280536 2280537 2280538 2280539
Blocks: 2280533
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-05-15 05:53 UTC by Rohit Keshri
Modified: 2025-05-16 08:28 UTC (History)
40 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libxml2 2.11.8, libxml2 2.12.7
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Description Rohit Keshri 2024-05-15 05:53:07 UTC 
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.

Reference:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/720

Upstream patches:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/3ad7f81624572ebd5b9e6058c9f67d38207c10e2
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/8ddc7f13337c9fe7c6b6e616f404b0fffb8a5145
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/2876ac5392a4e891b81e40e592c3ac6cb46016ce
Comment 1 Rohit Keshri 2024-05-15 06:01:56 UTC 
Created libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2280539]


Created mingw-libxml2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2280535]


Created pcem tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2280536]


Created qt5-qtwebengine tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2280534]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2280537]


Created qt6-qtwebengine tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2280538]
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