# RHSA-2025:2686: Security update for 3 packages

RHSA-2025:2686, released March 12, 2025, fixes 2 CVEs across 3 products. None of them is reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

- Web page: https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/rhsa-2025-2686
- Platform: Linux
- Released: Mar 12, 2025
- Priority: High (Closes CVE-2024-56171, high severity)
- CVEs: 2, exploited: 0, on CISA KEV: 0
- Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2686

## Applies to

| Product | Release | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| [libxml2](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/libxml2.md) | RHEL 8 | 0:2.9.7-19.el8_10 |
| [libxml2-devel](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/libxml2-devel.md) | RHEL 8 | 0:2.9.7-19.el8_10 |
| [python3-libxml2](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/python3-libxml2.md) | RHEL 8 | 0:2.9.7-19.el8_10 |

## CVEs this fix closes

| CVE | Priority | Title | CVSS | EPSS | Exploitation |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---|
| [CVE-2024-56171](https://patchblox.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2024-56171.md) | High | libxml2: Parsing a file may lead to an unexpected app termination | 9.8 | 0.0118 |  |
| [CVE-2025-24928](https://patchblox.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2025-24928.md) | High | libxml2: libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a stack-based bufferoverflow in xmlSnprintfElements in valid.c | 8.1 | 0.0039 |  |

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Data as of 2026-11-07T12:40:37Z UTC. Source: Patchblox Patch Radar (https://patchblox.com/security/patch-radar). Patchblox finds out-of-date software on Windows, macOS and Linux and updates it through release rings: https://patchblox.com/demo