INFSA-2025:8958: libxml2 security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:8958

Type: security

Release date: 2025-07-07 11:28:07 UTC

Information about package

The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2025-32414

    In libxml2 before 2.13.8 and 2.14.x before 2.14.2, out-of-bounds memory access can occur in the Python API (Python bindings) because of an incorrect return value. This occurs in xmlPythonFileRead and xmlPythonFileReadRaw because of a difference between bytes and characters.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 5.6 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

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