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general

source: libxml2 (main)
version: 2.15.1+dfsg-0.3
maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: YunQiang Su [DMD] – Aron Xu [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.6.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u4
o-o-sec: 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u9
oldstable: 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u4
old-sec: 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u4
stable: 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1+deb13u1
stable-sec: 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1+deb13u1
stable-p-u: 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1+deb13u2
testing: 2.14.6+dfsg-0.1
unstable: 2.15.1+dfsg-0.3

versioned links

2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u9: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1+deb13u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1+deb13u2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.14.6+dfsg-0.1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.15.1+dfsg-0.3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

libxml2-16 (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
libxml2-dev (3 bugs: 0, 2, 1, 0)
libxml2-doc
libxml2-utils (15 bugs: 0, 10, 5, 0)
python3-libxml2

action needed

2 security issues in trixie high

There are 2 open security issues in trixie.

1 important issue:

CVE-2025-12863: A flaw was found in the xmlSetTreeDoc() function of the libxml2 XML parsing library. This function is responsible for updating document pointers when XML nodes are moved between documents. Due to improper handling of namespace references, a namespace pointer may remain linked to a freed memory region when the original document is destroyed. As a result, subsequent operations that access the namespace can lead to a use-after-free condition, causing an application crash.

1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2025-9714: (needs triaging) Uncontrolled recursion in XPath evaluation in libxml2 up to and including version 2.9.14 allows a local attacker to cause a stack overflow via crafted expressions. XPath processing functions `xmlXPathRunEval`, `xmlXPathCtxtCompile`, and `xmlXPathEvalExpr` were resetting recursion depth to zero before making potentially recursive calls. When such functions were called recursively this could allow for uncontrolled recursion and lead to a stack overflow. These functions now preserve recursion depth across recursive calls, allowing recursion depth to be controlled.

You can find information about how to handle this issue in the security team's documentation.

Created: 2025-09-03 Last update: 2025-11-08 10:13

1 security issue in sid high

There is 1 open security issue in sid.

1 important issue:

CVE-2025-12863: A flaw was found in the xmlSetTreeDoc() function of the libxml2 XML parsing library. This function is responsible for updating document pointers when XML nodes are moved between documents. Due to improper handling of namespace references, a namespace pointer may remain linked to a freed memory region when the original document is destroyed. As a result, subsequent operations that access the namespace can lead to a use-after-free condition, causing an application crash.

Created: 2025-11-08 Last update: 2025-11-08 10:13

1 security issue in forky high

There is 1 open security issue in forky.

1 important issue:

CVE-2025-12863: A flaw was found in the xmlSetTreeDoc() function of the libxml2 XML parsing library. This function is responsible for updating document pointers when XML nodes are moved between documents. Due to improper handling of namespace references, a namespace pointer may remain linked to a freed memory region when the original document is destroyed. As a result, subsequent operations that access the namespace can lead to a use-after-free condition, causing an application crash.

Created: 2025-11-08 Last update: 2025-11-08 10:13

1 security issue in bullseye high

There is 1 open security issue in bullseye.

1 important issue:

CVE-2025-12863: A flaw was found in the xmlSetTreeDoc() function of the libxml2 XML parsing library. This function is responsible for updating document pointers when XML nodes are moved between documents. Due to improper handling of namespace references, a namespace pointer may remain linked to a freed memory region when the original document is destroyed. As a result, subsequent operations that access the namespace can lead to a use-after-free condition, causing an application crash.

Created: 2025-11-08 Last update: 2025-11-08 10:13

1 security issue in bookworm high

There is 1 open security issue in bookworm.

1 important issue:

CVE-2025-12863: A flaw was found in the xmlSetTreeDoc() function of the libxml2 XML parsing library. This function is responsible for updating document pointers when XML nodes are moved between documents. Due to improper handling of namespace references, a namespace pointer may remain linked to a freed memory region when the original document is destroyed. As a result, subsequent operations that access the namespace can lead to a use-after-free condition, causing an application crash.

1 issue that should be fixed with the next stable update:

CVE-2025-9714: Uncontrolled recursion in XPath evaluation in libxml2 up to and including version 2.9.14 allows a local attacker to cause a stack overflow via crafted expressions. XPath processing functions `xmlXPathRunEval`, `xmlXPathCtxtCompile`, and `xmlXPathEvalExpr` were resetting recursion depth to zero before making potentially recursive calls. When such functions were called recursively this could allow for uncontrolled recursion and lead to a stack overflow. These functions now preserve recursion depth across recursive calls, allowing recursion depth to be controlled.

Created: 2025-11-08 Last update: 2025-11-08 10:13

The VCS repository is not up to date, push the missing commits. high

vcswatch reports that the current version of the package is not in its VCS.
Either you need to push your commits and/or your tags, or the information about the package's VCS are out of date. A common cause of the latter issue when using the Git VCS is not specifying the correct branch when the packaging is not in the default one (remote HEAD branch), which is usually "master" but can be modified in salsa.debian.org in the project's general settings with the "Default Branch" field). Alternatively the Vcs-Git field in debian/control can contain a "-b <branch-name>" suffix to indicate what branch is used for the Debian packaging.

Created: 2024-07-01 Last update: 2025-10-31 10:17

The package has not entered testing even though the delay is over normal

The package has not entered testing even though the 5-day delay is over. Check why.

Created: 2025-10-30 Last update: 2025-11-08 16:31

1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 1 bug, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-11-05 Last update: 2025-11-08 16:30

Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal

The packages that libxml2 depends on which need a new maintainer are:

docbook-xsl (#802370)
- Build-Depends-Indep: docbook-xsl

Created: 2025-10-25 Last update: 2025-11-08 13:32

lintian reports 8 warnings normal

Lintian reports 8 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-10-25 Last update: 2025-10-25 18:31

debian/patches: 3 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 3 debian patches available in version 2.15.1+dfsg-0.3 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

3 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2025-10-25 12:31

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.2 instead of 4.6.2).

Created: 2022-05-11 Last update: 2025-10-25 09:17

testing migrations

This package is part of the ongoing testing transition known as auto-upperlimit-libxml2-16. Please avoid uploads unrelated to this transition, they would likely delay it and require supplementary work from the release managers. On the other hand, if your package has problems preventing it to migrate to testing, please fix them as soon as possible. You can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.
excuses:
- Migrates after: libxml-libxml-perl/amd64, libxml-libxml-perl/arm64, libxml-libxml-perl/armhf, libxml-libxml-perl/i386, libxml-libxml-perl/ppc64el, libxml-libxml-perl/riscv64, libxml-libxml-perl/s390x, libxml-libxslt-perl/amd64, libxml-libxslt-perl/arm64, libxml-libxslt-perl/armhf, libxml-libxslt-perl/i386, libxml-libxslt-perl/ppc64el, libxml-libxslt-perl/riscv64, libxml-libxslt-perl/s390x
- Migration status for libxml2 (2.14.6+dfsg-0.1 to 2.15.1+dfsg-0.3): BLOCKED: Rejected/violates migration policy/introduces a regression
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for cmake/4.1.1+really3.31.6-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for cyrus-imapd/3.12.1-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), i386: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for developers-reference/14.1: amd64: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), riscv64: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Regression ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for dolfin/2019.2.0~legacy20240219.1c52e83-24: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for fenics-dolfinx/1:0.9.0-10: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for libreoffice/4:25.8.2-3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), i386: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for libxml2/2.15.1+dfsg-0.3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for llvm-toolchain-17/1:17.0.6-22: amd64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for llvm-toolchain-18/1:18.1.8-18: amd64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for llvm-toolchain-19/1:19.1.7-10: amd64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for macaulay2/1.25.06+ds-8: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for openbabel/3.1.1+dfsg-14: amd64: Pass, arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), i386: Pass, ppc64el: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), riscv64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for ruby-libxml/5.0.5-1: amd64: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), riscv64: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Regression ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for ruby-nokogiri/1.18.10+dfsg-1: amd64: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), riscv64: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Regression ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxml-perl/amd64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxml-perl/arm64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxml-perl/armhf
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxml-perl/i386
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxml-perl/ppc64el
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxml-perl/riscv64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxml-perl/s390x
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxslt-perl/amd64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxslt-perl/arm64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxslt-perl/armhf
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxslt-perl/i386
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxslt-perl/ppc64el
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxslt-perl/riscv64
- ∙ ∙ Implicit dependency: libxml2 libxml-libxslt-perl/s390x
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/libx/libxml2.html
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on amd64 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on arm64 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ 14 days old (needed 5 days)
- Not considered

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[2025-10-25] Accepted libxml2 2.15.1+dfsg-0.3 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2025-10-24] Accepted libxml2 2.15.1+dfsg-0.2 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2025-10-21] Accepted libxml2 2.15.1+dfsg-0.1 (source) into experimental (Matthias Klose)
[2025-10-20] Accepted libxml2 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1+deb13u2 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Guilhem Moulin)
[2025-10-08] libxml2 2.14.6+dfsg-0.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-10-05] Accepted libxml2 2.15.0+dfsg-0.3 (source) into experimental (Matthias Klose)
[2025-10-05] Accepted libxml2 2.15.0+dfsg-0.2 (source) into experimental (Matthias Klose)
[2025-10-05] Accepted libxml2 2.15.0+dfsg-0.1 (source) into experimental (Matthias Klose)
[2025-10-05] Accepted libxml2 2.14.6+dfsg-0.1 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2025-09-30] Accepted libxml2 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u9 (source) into oldoldstable-security (Guilhem Moulin)
[2025-08-29] Accepted libxml2 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u4 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Aron Xu)
[2025-08-29] Accepted libxml2 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1+deb13u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Aron Xu)
[2025-08-29] Accepted libxml2 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1+deb13u1 (source) into stable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Aron Xu)
[2025-08-29] Accepted libxml2 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u4 (source) into oldstable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Aron Xu)
[2025-08-29] libxml2 2.14.5+dfsg-0.2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-08-26] Accepted libxml2 2.14.5+dfsg-0.2 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2025-08-19] libxml2 2.14.5+dfsg-0.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-08-14] Accepted libxml2 2.14.5+dfsg-0.1 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2025-07-31] libxml2 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-07-28] Accepted libxml2 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u3 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Guilhem Moulin)
[2025-07-28] Accepted libxml2 2.14.5+dfsg-0exp2 (source) into experimental (Matthias Klose)
[2025-07-28] Accepted libxml2 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1 (source) into unstable (Guilhem Moulin)
[2025-07-26] Accepted libxml2 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u8 (source) into oldstable-security (Guilhem Moulin)
[2025-07-23] libxml2 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-07-19] Accepted libxml2 2.14.5+dfsg-0exp1 (source) into experimental (Matthias Klose)
[2025-07-18] Accepted libxml2 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2 (source) into unstable (Aron Xu)
[2025-07-05] Accepted libxml2 2.14.4+dfsg-0exp1 (source) into experimental (Matthias Klose)
[2025-06-26] Accepted libxml2 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u2 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Aron Xu)
[2025-06-25] Accepted libxml2 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u2 (source) into stable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Aron Xu)
[2025-06-03] Accepted libxml2 2.14.3+dfsg-0exp3 (source) into experimental (Matthias Klose)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 23 24
RC: 0
I&N: 16 17
M&W: 7
F&P: 0
patch: 1

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