ALPINE-CVE-2020-24977

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CVE-2020-24977
Published: 04 Sept 2020, 00:15
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:46

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
26/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

04 Sept 2020, 00:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:46
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. The issue has been fixed in commit 50f06b3e.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Affected Systems

  • alpine•libxml2

    < 2.9.9-r4 | < 2.9.10-r4 | < 2.9.10-r5 | < 2.9.10-r5 | < 2.9.10-r5 | < 2.9.10-r5 | < 2.9.10-r5 | < 2.9.10-r5 | < 2.9.10-r5 | < 2.9.10-r5 | < 2.9.10-r5 | < 2.9.10-r5 | < 2.9.10-r5 | < 2.9.10-r5 | < 2.9.9-r3

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