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MEDIUM: 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:LDefault status
unaffected
Any version before 2.13.8
affected
2.14.0 (semver) before 2.14.2
affected
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.
Problem types
CWE-393 Return of Wrong Status Code
Product status
Any version before 2.13.8
2.14.0 (semver) before 2.14.2
References
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/889
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00041.html
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/889