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TITLE:
Sun Solaris libxml2 Two Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33792

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33792/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/95/
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/4813/

DESCRIPTION:
Sun has acknowledged two vulnerabilities in libxml2 in Solaris, which
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) or potentially to compromise an application using the
library.

For more information:
SA32773

The vulnerabilities are reported in Sun Solaris 9 and 10 for both the
SPARC and x86 platforms.

SOLUTION:
Do not process untrusted xml files.

A final resolution is pending completion for Solaris 9 and 10.

OpenSolaris:
Fixed in build snv_106 or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-251406-1

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA32773:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32773/

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