ELSA-2008-0836 Moderate: Enterprise Linux libxml2 security update
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
08/27/2008
07/25/2018
12/20/2011
07/04/2017
Description
libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document.
Solution(s)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-libxml2
- oracle-linux-upgrade-libxml2-devel
- oracle-linux-upgrade-libxml2-python
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