CVE-2025-32414
CVSS 3.1 Score 7.5 of 10 (high)
Details
Published Apr 8, 2025
Updated: Apr 23, 2025
CWE ID 252
CWE ID 393
Summary
CVE-2025-32414 is a vulnerability affecting libxml2 before version 2.13.8 and 2.14.x before 2.14.2. It introduces an out-of-bounds memory access issue in the Python API (Python bindings) due to a discrepancy between bytes and characters. Specifically, the functions xmlPythonFileRead and xmlPythonFileReadRaw are impacted, potentially leading to memory corruption. The miscalculation of return values in these functions causes the issue.
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Affected Products
- XMLSoft Libxml 2
- libxml2
Affected Vendors
- GNOME Project
- Xmlsoft