Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability

Updated libxml2 packages that fix an overflow when parsing remote resources are now available. Updated 3 March 2004 Revised libxml2 packages are now available as the original packages did not contain a complete patch. libxml2 is a library for manipulating XML files. Yuuichi Teranishi discovered a...

libxml2 stack buffer overflow in URI parsing

Yuuichi Teranishi reported a crash in libxml2's URI handling when a long URL is supplied. The implementation in nanohttp.c and nanoftp.c uses a 4K stack buffer, and longer URLs will overwrite the stack. This could result in denial-of-service or arbitrary code execution in applications using libxm...

CVE-2003-1564

libxml2, possibly before 2.5.0, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory and CPU consumption via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka the "billion laughs...

CVE-2003-1564

libxml2, possibly before 2.5.0, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory and CPU consumption via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka the "billion laughs...

ROS-2-1367

2.1367 Denial of Service in Libxml2 CVE-2021-3541 1. Vulnerability Description: The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service DoS attack. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input data to a...

ROS-2-1659

2.1659 Denial of Service in Libxml2 CVE-2021-3541 1. Vulnerability Description: The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service DoS attack. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input data to a...

ROS-2-2168

2.2168 Denial of Service in Libxml2 CVE-2021-3541 1. Vulnerability Description: The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service DoS attack. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input data to a...