[Low] Patch libxml2 for CVE-2025-8732

[Ratiranjan5]

Merge Checklist

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• The toolchain has been rebuilt successfully (or no changes were made to it)
• The toolchain/worker package manifests are up-to-date
• Any updated packages successfully build (or no packages were changed)
• Packages depending on static components modified in this PR (Golang, *-static subpackages, etc.) have had their Release tag incremented.
• Package tests (%check section) have been verified with RUN_CHECK=y for existing SPEC files, or added to new SPEC files
• All package sources are available
• cgmanifest files are up-to-date and sorted (./cgmanifest.json, ./toolkit/scripts/toolchain/cgmanifest.json, .github/workflows/cgmanifest.json)
• LICENSE-MAP files are up-to-date (./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/data/licenses.json, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSES-MAP.md, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSE-EXCEPTIONS.PHOTON)
• All source files have up-to-date hashes in the *.signatures.json files
• sudo make go-tidy-all and sudo make go-test-coverage pass
• Documentation has been updated to match any changes to the build system
• Ready to merge

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Summary

• Patch libxml2 for CVE-2025-8732
• Upstream patch has been backported manually.
• Added the depth argument to the xmlExpandCatalog() function definition.
• Kept all upstream changes intact.
• Upstream Patch Reference: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/merge_requests/337

Change Log

• new file: SPECS/libxml2/CVE-2025-8732.patch
• modified: SPECS/libxml2/libxml2.spec

Does this affect the toolchain?

YES

Associated issues

Links to CVEs

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8732

Test Methodology

• Local build was successful.

• Log:
  libxml2-2.10.4-11.cm2.src.rpm.log

• Patch applies cleanly.

• Check Installation:

• Check Uninstallation:

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