CVE-2025-32414

medium

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.

References

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-04-08

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium