vulnerability

CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-18258: Moderate: libxml2 security update (CESA-2020:1190)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 8, 2018
Added
Apr 1, 2020
Modified
May 25, 2023

Description

The xz_head 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.

Solutions

centos-upgrade-libxml2centos-upgrade-libxml2-debuginfocentos-upgrade-libxml2-develcentos-upgrade-libxml2-pythoncentos-upgrade-libxml2-static
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