CVE-2024-56171 – Libxml2 Use-After-Free Vulnerability

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CVE-2024-56171 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Feb. 18, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description 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.
    Added Reference https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/828
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