CVE-2025-32414

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.

Reserved 2025-04-08 | Published 2025-04-08 | Updated 2025-04-09 | Assigner mitre

Problem types

CWE-393 Return of Wrong Status Code

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 2.13.8
affected

2.14.0 before 2.14.2
affected

References

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/889

cve.org (CVE-2025-32414)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-32414)

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