CVE-2025-32414

Publication date 8 April 2025

Last updated 19 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.6 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libxml2 25.10 questing
Fixed 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-0.4ubuntu0.1
25.04 plucky
Fixed 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-0.4ubuntu0.1
24.10 oracular
Fixed 2.12.7+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3ubuntu3.3
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.7
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.9.10+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.10
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1.9+esm3
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.7+esm8
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
libxml2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.6 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

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