{"id":"CVE-2020-24977","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-24977","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:25:36.461Z","title":"GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c.","description":"GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c. 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