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Out-of-bounds Read

CVE-2020-24977

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

GNOME project libxml2 prior to version 2.9.11 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at "libxml2/entities.c".

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • LOW

CWE-125 - Out-of-Bounds Read

Out-of-bounds read is a vulnerability that allows access to memory beyond the authorized accessible location. Such a vulnerability compromises the confidentiality of the trusted environment in the application and enables an attacker to launch further attacks by leveraging the exposed information.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published