--- /dev/null
+From d7657811964eac1cb9743bb98649278ad948f0d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Maks Verver <maks@verver.ch>
+Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:13:55 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] [CVE-2025-32414] python: Read at most len/4 characters.
+
+Fixes #889 by reserving space in the buffer for UTF-8 encoding of text.
+
+CVE: CVE-2025-32414
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/d7657811964eac1cb9743bb98649278ad948f0d2]
+Signed-off-by: Peter Marko <peter.marko@siemens.com>
+---
+ python/libxml.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
+ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/python/libxml.c b/python/libxml.c
+index 1fe8d685..2bf14078 100644
+--- a/python/libxml.c
++++ b/python/libxml.c
+@@ -287,7 +287,9 @@ xmlPythonFileReadRaw (void * context, char * buffer, int len) {
+ #endif
+ file = (PyObject *) context;
+ if (file == NULL) return(-1);
+- ret = PyEval_CallMethod(file, (char *) "read", (char *) "(i)", len);
++ /* When read() returns a string, the length is in characters not bytes, so
++ request at most len / 4 characters to leave space for UTF-8 encoding. */
++ ret = PyEval_CallMethod(file, (char *) "read", (char *) "(i)", len / 4);
+ if (ret == NULL) {
+ printf("xmlPythonFileReadRaw: result is NULL\n");
+ return(-1);
+@@ -322,10 +324,12 @@ xmlPythonFileReadRaw (void * context, char * buffer, int len) {
+ Py_DECREF(ret);
+ return(-1);
+ }
+- if (lenread > len)
+- memcpy(buffer, data, len);
+- else
+- memcpy(buffer, data, lenread);
++ if (lenread < 0 || lenread > len) {
++ printf("xmlPythonFileReadRaw: invalid lenread\n");
++ Py_DECREF(ret);
++ return(-1);
++ }
++ memcpy(buffer, data, lenread);
+ Py_DECREF(ret);
+ return(lenread);
+ }
+@@ -352,7 +356,9 @@ xmlPythonFileRead (void * context, char * buffer, int len) {
+ #endif
+ file = (PyObject *) context;
+ if (file == NULL) return(-1);
+- ret = PyEval_CallMethod(file, (char *) "io_read", (char *) "(i)", len);
++ /* When io_read() returns a string, the length is in characters not bytes, so
++ request at most len / 4 characters to leave space for UTF-8 encoding. */
++ ret = PyEval_CallMethod(file, (char *) "io_read", (char *) "(i)", len / 4);
+ if (ret == NULL) {
+ printf("xmlPythonFileRead: result is NULL\n");
+ return(-1);
+@@ -387,10 +393,12 @@ xmlPythonFileRead (void * context, char * buffer, int len) {
+ Py_DECREF(ret);
+ return(-1);
+ }
+- if (lenread > len)
+- memcpy(buffer, data, len);
+- else
+- memcpy(buffer, data, lenread);
++ if (lenread < 0 || lenread > len) {
++ printf("xmlPythonFileRead: invalid lenread\n");
++ Py_DECREF(ret);
++ return(-1);
++ }
++ memcpy(buffer, data, lenread);
+ Py_DECREF(ret);
+ return(lenread);
+ }