MGASA-2015-0457 Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities: In libxml2 before 2.9.3, one case where when dealing with entities expansion, it failed to exit, leading to a denial of service CVE-2015-5312. In libxml2 before 2.9.3, it was possible to hit a negative offset in the name indexing used to...

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities: In libxml2 before 2.9.3, one case where when dealing with entities expansion, it failed to exit, leading to a denial of service CVE-2015-5312. In libxml2 before 2.9.3, it was possible to hit a negative offset in the name indexing used to...

CVE-2015-5312

The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7498

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors related to extracting errors after an encoding conversion failure...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7499

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlGROW function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive process memory information via unspecified vectors...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7500

The xmlParseMisc function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds heap read via unspecified vectors related to incorrect entities boundaries and start tags...

CVE-2015-7498

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors related to extracting errors after an encoding conversion failure...

CVE-2015-7497

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlDictComputeFastQKey function in dict.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5312

The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7497

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlDictComputeFastQKey function in dict.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2015-8317

The xmlParseXMLDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information via an 1 unterminated encoding value or 2 incomplete XML declaration in XML data, which triggers an out-of-bounds heap read...

FreeBSD : libxml2 -- multiple vulnerabilities (e5423caf-8fb8-11e5-918c-bcaec565249c)

reports : CVE-2015-5312 Another entity expansion issue David Drysdale. CVE-2015-7497 Avoid an heap buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey David Drysdale. CVE-2015-7498 Avoid processing entities after encoding conversion failures Daniel Veillard. CVE-2015-7499 1 Add xmlHaltParser to stop the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8317

The xmlParseXMLDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information via an 1 unterminated encoding value or 2 incomplete XML declaration in XML data, which triggers an out-of-bounds heap read...

libxml2 -- multiple vulnerabilities

reports: CVE-2015-5312 Another entity expansion issue David Drysdale. CVE-2015-7497 Avoid an heap buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey David Drysdale. CVE-2015-7498 Avoid processing entities after encoding conversion failures Daniel Veillard. CVE-2015-7499 1 Add xmlHaltParser to stop the...

PT-2015-3260

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libxml2 affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to the htmlParseComment function in HTMLparser.c of the libxml2 library, caused by a buffer overflow. This can be exploited by a remote attacker using an unclosed HTML...

PT-2015-3254

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libxml2 versions prior to 2.9.3 Description The issue is related to a heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function, which can be exploited by context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service. This occurs via unspecified...

PT-2015-3256

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libxml2 versions prior to 2.9.3 Description The issue is related to the xmlParseMisc function in parser.c, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service due to an out-of-bounds heap read. This is related to incorrect...

PT-2015-3255

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libxml2 versions prior to 2.9.3 Description The issue is a heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlGROW function in parser.c in libxml2. This allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive process memory information via unspecified vector...

PT-2015-3259

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libxml2 versions prior to 2.9.3 Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information via an unterminated encoding value or incomplete XML declaration in XML data, triggering an out-of-bounds heap read. This...

Libxml2 'parser.c' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Libxml2 is a C-based language used to parse XML documents library , which supports a variety of encoding formats , Xpath parsing , Well-formed and valid validation . A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Libxml2 'parser.c'. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code...