SB2025111742 - SUSE update for libxml2 

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SB2025111742 - SUSE update for libxml2

Published: November 17, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2025111742
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-8732)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop within the xmlParseSGMLCatalog() function in catalog.c when parsing untrusted SGML catalogs. A remote attacker can trick the victim into passing a specially crafted SGML catalogs to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


2) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-9714)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion in XPath evaluation within the xmlXPathRunEval() function in xpath.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crated XML data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References