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CentOS 9 : libxml2-2.9.13-9.el9

high Nessus Plugin ID 217011

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for libxml2.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the libxml2-2.9.13-9.el9 build changelog.

 - libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements in valid.c. To exploit this, DTD validation must occur for an untrusted document or untrusted DTD. NOTE:
 this is similar to CVE-2017-9047. (CVE-2025-24928)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the CentOS 9 Stream libxml2 package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=75472

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 217011

File Name: centos9_libxml2-2_9_13-9_75472.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/3/2025

Updated: 3/3/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24928

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libxml2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libxml2-devel, cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-libxml2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libxml2-static

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-24928

IAVA: 2025-A-0123