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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

Severity Score

7.2

Related Resources (27)

Url: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/50f06b3efb638efb0abd95dc62dca05ae67882c2

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-24977

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200924-0001/

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00036.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-24977

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772@%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-05

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2NQ5GTDYOVH26PBCPYXXMGW5ZZXWMGZC/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H3IQ7OQXBKWD3YP7HO6KCNOMLE5ZO2IR/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J3ICASXZI2UQYFJAOQWHSTNWGED3VXOE/

Url: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

Url: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O7MEWYKIKMV2SKMGH4IDWVU3ZGJXBCPQ/

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24977

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24977

Url: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/178

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/674LQPJO2P2XTBTREFR5LOZMBTZ4PZAY/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JCHXIWR5DHYO3RSO7RAHEC6VJKXD2EH2/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KQXOHIE3MNY3VQXEN7LDQUJNIHOVHAW/

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00061.html

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5KTUAGDLEHTH6HU66HBFAFTSQ3OKRAN3/

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-24977

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ENEHQIBMSI6TZVS35Y6I4FCTYUQDLJVP/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RIQAMBA2IJUTQG5VOP5LZVIZRNCKXHEQ/

Url: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-24977

Severity Score

7.2

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

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

CWE-120

Top Fix

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CVSS v3

Base Score:	7.2
Attack Vector (AV):
Attack Complexity (AC):
Privileges Required (PR):
User Interaction (UI):
Scope (S):
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	8.8
Access Vector (AV):
Access Complexity (AC):
Authentication (AU):
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH
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CVE-2020-24977

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Date: September 3, 2020

Language: C

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Related Resources (27)

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