CVE-2025-32414

State: Published
Severity: 5.6 Medium
Published: Apr 8, 2025
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Reserved: Apr 8, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.6 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-393 Return of Wrong Status Code

Affected Products

Product	Versions
libxml2xmlsoft	before 2.13.8Affected 2.14.0 to before 2.14.2Affected

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/889
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00041.html

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