CVE-2025-32414 – Libxml2 Python API Out-of-Bounds Memory Access Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-32414 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Apr. 08, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description 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.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
    Added CWE CWE-393
    Added Reference https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/889
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