CVE-2008-3281

2008-08-2700:00:00

ubuntu.com

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

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%

JSON

libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity
expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers
to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML
document.

Notes

Author	Note
kees	earlier patches broke ABI (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459830) USN-644-1 updates this fix to match upstream patches.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu6.06noarchlibxml2< 2.6.24.dfsg-1ubuntu1.2UNKNOWN
ubuntu7.04noarchlibxml2< 2.6.27.dfsg-1ubuntu3.2UNKNOWN
ubuntu7.10noarchlibxml2< 2.6.30.dfsg-2ubuntu1.2UNKNOWN
ubuntu8.04noarchlibxml2< 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	6.06	noarch	libxml2	< 2.6.24.dfsg-1ubuntu1.2	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	7.04	noarch	libxml2	< 2.6.27.dfsg-1ubuntu3.2	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	7.10	noarch	libxml2	< 2.6.30.dfsg-2ubuntu1.2	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	8.04	noarch	libxml2	< 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1	UNKNOWN