CVE-2007-6284

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2008-01-11
CWE:
CWE-835
Bugzilla:
425927: CVE-2007-6284 libxml2: infinite loop in UTF-8 decoding

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The xmlCurrentChar function in libxml2 before 2.6.31 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via XML containing invalid UTF-8 sequences.

Find out more about CVE-2007-6284 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (libxml2) RHSA-2008:0032 2008-01-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (libxml2) RHSA-2008:0032 2008-01-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (libxml2) RHSA-2008:0032 2008-01-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (libxml2) RHSA-2008:0032 2008-01-11

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Google Security Team for responsibly disclosing this issue.

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