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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2010-4008: libxml2: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2010-4008: libxml2: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/16/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

libxml2 before 2.7.8, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, Apple Safari 5.0.2 and earlier, and other products, reads from invalid memory locations during processing of malformed XPath expressions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted XML document.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-libxml2

References

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