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HistoryNov 18, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

libxml2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

2008-11-1800:00:00
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17

0.019 Low

EPSS

Percentile

88.3%

Secunia reports:

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Libxml2, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or
to potentially compromise an application using the library.

  1. An integer overflow error in the β€œxmlSAX2Characters()” function
    can be exploited to trigger a memory corruption via a specially
    Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but
    requires e.g. that the user is tricked into processing an overly
    large XML file (2GB or more).
  2. An integer overflow error in the β€œxmlBufferResize()” function
    can be exploited to trigger the execution of an infinite loop.
    The vulnerabilities are reported in version 2.7.2.
    Other versions may also be affected.
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
FreeBSDanynoarchlibxml2<Β 2.6.32_2UNKNOWN