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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-18258: libxml2 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-18258: libxml2 security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/08/2018
Created
12/05/2019
Added
12/04/2019
Modified
12/04/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libxml2
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libxml2-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libxml2-python

References

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