Security vulnerability CVE-2024-40896 in libxml2 in Strawberry Perl Distribution

[TheOncomingStorm57]

Security vulnerability CVE-2024-40896 in libxml2 (A remote, anonymous attacker can exploit a vulnerability in libxml2 to manipulate files or cause a denial of service.)
Our scanners have detected that Strawberry Perl 5.32.1.1 with libxml2-2.9.9 (and also in the current 5.40 with libxml2-2.12.6) uses versions with a critical security vulnerability. Will you be releasing an update for this?

[shawnlaffan]

Thanks for this.

SP 5.32 is out of support so is unlikely to be updated.

I'll look into building an updated libxml for 5.38 and 5.40.