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HistorySep 03, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

libxml2 vulnerability

2008-09-0300:00:00
ubuntu.com
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6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.007 Low

EPSS

Percentile

80.0%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 8.04
  • Ubuntu 7.10
  • Ubuntu 7.04
  • Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

  • libxml2 -

Details

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.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu8.04noarchlibxml2< 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.04noarchlibxml2-dbg< 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.04noarchlibxml2-dev< 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.04noarchlibxml2-udeb< 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.04noarchlibxml2-utils< 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.04noarchpython-libxml2< 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.04noarchpython-libxml2-dbg< 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu7.10noarchlibxml2< 2.6.30.dfsg-2ubuntu1.2UNKNOWN
Ubuntu7.10noarchlibxml2-dbg< 2.6.30.dfsg-2ubuntu1.2UNKNOWN
Ubuntu7.10noarchlibxml2-dev< 2.6.30.dfsg-2ubuntu1.2UNKNOWN
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6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.007 Low

EPSS

Percentile

80.0%