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libxml2 -- Denial of service

Affected packages
		libxml2	<	2.9.2
		linux-c6-libxml2	<	2.7.6_2
*	<=	linux-f10-libxml2

Details

VuXML ID	0642b064-56c4-11e4-8b87-bcaec565249c
Discovery	2014-10-16
Entry	2014-10-18
Modified	2015-07-15

RedHat reports:

A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would lead to excessive CPU consumption (denial of service) based on excessive entity substitutions, even if entity substitution was disabled, which is the parser default behavior.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2014-3660
URL	https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1655.html