libxml2: Denial of service — GLSA 200801-20

A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in libxml2.

Affected packages

Background

libxml2 is the XML (eXtended Markup Language) C parser and toolkit initially developed for the Gnome project.

Description

Brad Fitzpatrick reported that the xmlCurrentChar() function does not properly handle some UTF-8 multibyte encodings.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted XML document with an application using libxml2, possibly resulting in a high CPU consumption. Note that this vulnerability could also be triggered without user interaction by an automated system processing XML content.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.30-r1"

References

• CVE-2007-6284

Release date
January 30, 2008

Latest revision
January 30, 2008: 01

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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