Ubuntu Update for libxml2 vulnerability USN-640-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-640-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN6401.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for libxml2 vulnerability USN-640-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : libxml2 vulnerability (USN-640-1)

Andreas Solberg discovered that libxml2 did not handle recursive entities safely. If an application linked against libxml2 were made to process a specially crafted XML document, a remote attacker could exhaust the system's CPU resources, leading to a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network...