Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-56171
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- azl3 libxml2 2.11.5-4 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 libxml2 2.11.5-5 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 libxml2 2.10.4-6 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 libxml2 2.10.4-6 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 2.11.5-4 |
| — | Security Update | 2.10.4-6 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-56171
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.8 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a use-after-free in xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables and xmlSchemaBubbleIDCNodeTables in xmlschemas.c. To exploit this, a crafted XML document must be validated against an XML schema with certain identity constraints, or a crafted XML schema must be used.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-56171, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).