[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#1063234: libxml2: CVE-2024-25062

[Jay Pelletier]

On Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:02:10 +0100 Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: libxml2
> Version: 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3
> Severity: important
> Tags: security upstream
> Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/604
> X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>
> Control: found -1 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u1
> Control: found -1 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u4
>
> Hi,
>
> The following vulnerability was published for libxml2.
>
> CVE-2024-25062[0]:
> | An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.11.7 and 2.12.x before
> | 2.12.5. When using the XML Reader interface with DTD validation and
> | XInclude expansion enabled, processing crafted XML documents can
> | lead to an xmlValidatePopElement use-after-free.
>
>
> If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
> CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.
>
> For further information see:
>
> [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-25062
> https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-25062
> [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/604
> [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/2b0aac140d739905c7848a42efc60bfe783a39b7
> [3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/92721970884fcc13305cb8e23cdc5f0dd7667c2c
>
> Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.
>
> Regards,
> Salvatore
>
>

I see this ticket still open from February.   I had opened #1088013 recently and it was closed in favor of this ticket and was wondering what the status was.  Is this ticket a request to update the libxml2 library in Debian 12?

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