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CVE-2020-24977

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Date: September 3, 2020

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.

Language: C

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Related Resources (27)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/50f06b3efb638efb0abd95dc62dca05ae67882c2
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-24977
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200924-0001/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00036.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-24977
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772@%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-05
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2NQ5GTDYOVH26PBCPYXXMGW5ZZXWMGZC/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H3IQ7OQXBKWD3YP7HO6KCNOMLE5ZO2IR/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3ICASXZI2UQYFJAOQWHSTNWGED3VXOE/
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O7MEWYKIKMV2SKMGH4IDWVU3ZGJXBCPQ/
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24977
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24977
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/178
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/674LQPJO2P2XTBTREFR5LOZMBTZ4PZAY/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JCHXIWR5DHYO3RSO7RAHEC6VJKXD2EH2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KQXOHIE3MNY3VQXEN7LDQUJNIHOVHAW/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00061.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5KTUAGDLEHTH6HU66HBFAFTSQ3OKRAN3/
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-24977
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ENEHQIBMSI6TZVS35Y6I4FCTYUQDLJVP/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RIQAMBA2IJUTQG5VOP5LZVIZRNCKXHEQ/
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-24977

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CWE-120

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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