libxml2: Unrestricted memory usage in xz_head() function in xzlib.c

The xzhead function in xzlib.c in libxml2 before 2.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted LZMA file, because the decoder functionality does not restrict memory usage to what is required for a legitimate file...

CVE-2017-18258

The CVE-2017-18258 entry affects libxml2: the xz_head function in xzlib.c (pre-2.9.6) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted LZMA files by not restricting memory usage to a legitimate file. Impact is memory consumption/DoS; no exploit details are provided in the initial ...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libxml2 (SUSE-SU-2015:0003-1)

This libxml2 update fixes the following security and non-security issues : - Fix a denial of service via recursive entity expansion. CVE-2014-3660, bnc901546, bgo738805 - Fix a regression in xzlib compression support. bnc908376 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...