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Google: dev-libs/libxml2: security update to 17800.436.60

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 454848

Description

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

 - libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements
 in valid.c. To exploit this, DTD validation must occur for an untrusted document or untrusted DTD. NOTE:
 this is similar to CVE-2017-9047. (CVE-2025-24928)

Solution

Update the dev-libs/libxml2 library and its related packages to version 17800.436.60 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-109.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 454848

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.37

Vendor

Vendor Severity: HIGH

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24928

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-24928