RHSA-2021:1597: Red Hat Security Advisory: libxml2 security update

An update for libxml2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards. Security Fix(es):

• libxml2: Buffer overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in entities.c (CVE-2020-24977) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section. Related CVEs:
• CVE-2020-24977: libxml2: Buffer overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal() in entities.c