CVE-2020-24977: Buffer Overflow

September 4, 2020 (updated October 20, 2021)

libxml2 has a global Buffer Overflow vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c.

References

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/50f06b3efb638efb0abd95dc62dca05ae67882c2
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/178
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24977

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