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CVE-2025-32414 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…

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.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
libxml2 2.14 2.14.0 → < 2.14.2 2.14.2
libxml2 2.13 earliest → < 2.13.8 2.13.8

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