Google: dev-libs/libxml2: security update to 18244.382.8

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 451473

Description

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

- 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. (CVE-2025-32414)

Solution

Update the dev-libs/libxml2 library and its related packages to version 18244.382.8 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 451473

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: Google COS Security Checks

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.7

Percentile: 96.62

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-2025-32414

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

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-32414

Detections

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