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    CVE-2025-6491: PHP SOAP Crash from Oversized Namespace Prefix (Patch Guide)

    The PHP ecosystem suffered a practical and easily-triggered availability bug when researchers disclosed CVE-2025-6491: a NULL pointer dereference in the PHP SOAP extension caused by an oversized XML namespace prefix. The defect is not a subtle compiler edge case — it is reliably reproducible...
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    libxml2 CVE-2023-45322: Hidden Use-After-Free in xmlUnlinkNode Explained

    libxml2 contained a subtle but real use‑after‑free in its tree manipulation code that was assigned CVE‑2023‑45322 — a bug that only triggers after a specific memory allocation fails, but which nevertheless exposes real availability and stability risks for any software that embeds the library...
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    Azure Linux includes the vulnerable libxml2: scope and risk of CVE-2024-34459

    Microsoft’s short public attestation that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” is accurate — but it is a scoped, product‑level inventory statement, not a categorical guarantee that no other Microsoft product or image could contain the same...
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    Hitachi Energy RTU500 Vulnerabilities: OpenLDAP, Expat and libxml2 DoS and Patch Guidance

    Hitachi Energy’s widely deployed RTU500 series has been the subject of a renewed and broad advisory outlining multiple, exploitable parsing and memory-corruption flaws that can trigger Denial‑of‑Service (DoS) conditions and — in at least one case — permit bypass of secure firmware update checks...
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