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TITLE:
Libxml2 Recursion Limit Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31558

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Libxml2 2.6.x
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Libxml2, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an recursion error when processing
certain XML content. This can be exploited to e.g. exhaust all
available memory and CPU resources by tricking an application using
Libxml2 into processing specially crafted XML documents.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2?view=revision&revision=3772

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Red Hat credits Andreas Solberg.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html

RHSA-2008-0836:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0836.html

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