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Google: dev-libs/libxml2: security update to 17162.40.42

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 454795

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. When parsing a multi-gigabyte XML document with the
 XML_PARSE_HUGE parser option enabled, several integer counters can overflow. This results in an attempt to
 access an array at a negative 2GB offset, typically leading to a segmentation fault. (CVE-2022-40303)

Solution

Update the dev-libs/libxml2 library and its related packages to version 17162.40.42 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-101.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 454795

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.19

Vendor

Vendor Severity: HIGH

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40303

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-40303