Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:11867Denial Of Service (DoS)
7.1 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
libxml2 is vulnerable to denial of service attacks due to improper prevention of entity expansion in the xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c. A context-dependent attacker is able to cause a denial of service by exhausting CPU using specially crafted XML data.
References
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Related
7.1 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C