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 …
High CVSS 7.5
Summary
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.
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
- :
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/720 Exploit
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases/v2.11.8 Release Notes
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases/v2.12.7 Release Notes
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5HVUXKYTBWT3G5DEEQX62STJQBY367NL/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/INKSSLW5VMZIXHRPZBAW4TJUX5SQKARG/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VRDJCNQP32LV56KESUQ5SNZKAJWSZZRI/ Mailing List
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/720 Exploit
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases/v2.11.8 Release Notes
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases/v2.12.7 Release Notes
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00014.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5HVUXKYTBWT3G5DEEQX62STJQBY367NL/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/INKSSLW5VMZIXHRPZBAW4TJUX5SQKARG/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VRDJCNQP32LV56KESUQ5SNZKAJWSZZRI/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5HVUXKYTBWT3G5DEEQX62STJQBY367NL/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/INKSSLW5VMZIXHRPZBAW4TJUX5SQKARG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VRDJCNQP32LV56KESUQ5SNZKAJWSZZRI/
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD