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SUSE-SU-2021:14729-1 Not scored

Security update for libxml2

This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2021-3537: NULL pointer dereference in valid.c:xmlValidBuildAContentModel (bsc#1185698) - CVE-2021-3518: Fixed a use after free in xinclude.c:xmlXIncludeDoProcess (bsc#1185408). - CVE-2021-3517: Fixed a heap based buffer overflow in entities.c:xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal (bsc#1185410). - CVE-2021-3516: Fixed a use after free in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in entities.c (bsc#1185409) - CVE-2020-24977: Fixed a global-buffer-overflow in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal (bsc#1176179). - CVE-2019-20388: Fixed a memory leak in xmlSchemaPreRun (bsc#1161521). - CVE-2020-7595: Fixed an infinite loop in an EOF situation (bsc#1161517). - CVE-2019-19956: Fixed a memory leak in xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover (bsc#1159928).

Exploit probability Not scored
Published May 19, 2021
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 libxml2
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 libxml2-python
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS libxml2
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS libxml2-python

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2021:14729-1

This update for libxml2 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2021-3537: NULL pointer dereference in valid.c:xmlValidBuildAContentModel (bsc#1185698) - CVE-2021-3518: Fixed a use after free in xinclude.c:xmlXIncludeDoProcess (bsc#1185408). - CVE-2021-3517: Fixed a heap based buffer overflow in entities.c:xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal (bsc#1185410). - CVE-2021-3516: Fixed a use after free in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in entities.c (bsc#1185409) - CVE-2020-24977: Fixed a global-buffer-overflow in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal (bsc#1176179). - CVE-2019-20388: Fixed a memory leak in xmlSchemaPreRun (bsc#1161521). - CVE-2020-7595: Fixed an infinite loop in an EOF situation (bsc#1161517). - CVE-2019-19956: Fixed a memory leak in xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover (bsc#1159928).

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05 / REFERENCES

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