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Mandriva Update for libxml2 MDVSA-2008:192 (libxml2)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Mandrake Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

Check for the Version of libxml2

Insight

Insight

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in how libxml2 handled long XML entity names. If an application linked against libxml2 processed untrusted malformed XML content, it could cause the application to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2008-3529). The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. As well, the patch to fix CVE-2008-3281 has been updated to remove the hard-coded entity limit that was set to 5M, instead using XML entity density heuristics. Many thanks to Daniel Veillard of Red Hat for his hard work in tracking down and dealing with the edge cases discovered with the initial fix to this issue.

Affected Software

Affected Software

libxml2 on Mandriva Linux 2007.1, Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64, Mandriva Linux 2008.0, Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64, Mandriva Linux 2008.1, Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64

Solution

Solution

Please Install the Updated Packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)