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AlmaLinux 9 : libxml2 (ALSA-2025:22376)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 277381

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Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2025:22376 advisory.

 * libxslt: libxml2: Inifinite recursion at exsltDynMapFunction function in libexslt/dynamic.c (CVE-2025-9714)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libxml2, libxml2-devel and / or python3-libxml2 packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-22376.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22376

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 277381

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-22376.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 12/4/2025

Updated: 12/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-9714

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libxml2, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libxml2-devel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python3-libxml2, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AlmaLinux/release, Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-9714

CWE: 606

RHSA: 2025:22376