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

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 452301

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 use-after-free in xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables and
xmlSchemaBubbleIDCNodeTables in xmlschemas.c. To exploit this, a crafted XML document must be validated
against an XML schema with certain identity constraints, or a crafted XML schema must be used.
(CVE-2024-56171)

Solution

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 452301

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Google COS Security Checks

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: HIGH

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-56171

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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-2024-56171

Detections

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