The RHEL 8 host is vulnerable to a use-after-free issue in libxml2 library (CVE-2024-25062
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 199 |
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![]() | Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libxml2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1729) | 30 May 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2024-0172) | 9 May 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libxml2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1510) | 8 Apr 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libxml2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1803) | 3 Jun 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libxml2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1987) | 19 Jul 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libxml2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-2071) | 7 Aug 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libxml2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1573) | 10 May 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libxml2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1489) | 8 Apr 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libxml2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1791) | 3 Jun 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2024:0461-2) | 30 May 202400:00 | – | openvas |
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The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of
various XML standards.
Security Fix(es):
* libxml2: use-after-free in XMLReader (CVE-2024-25062)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact,
a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer
to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
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{
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