Description
libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/644-1/ ↗
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31855 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020728 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00347.html ↗
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0836.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32807 ↗
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31982 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2971 ↗
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0017.html ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2843 ↗
- http://xmlsoft.org/news.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31590 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497962/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-640-1 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31728 ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml ↗
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32488 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31566 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30783 ↗
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0325 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6496 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2419 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35379 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:192 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32974 ↗
- http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2?view=revision&revision=3772 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00261.html ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1631 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458086 ↗
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9812 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:180 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31558 ↗
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613 ↗
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000039.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31748 ↗