CVE-2008-3281

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-08-20
Bugzilla:
458086: CVE-2008-3281 libxml2 denial of service

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document.

Find out more about CVE-2008-3281 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (libxml2) RHSA-2008:0836 2008-08-21
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (libxml2) RHSA-2008:0836 2008-08-21
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (libxml2) RHSA-2008:0836 2008-08-21
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (libxml2) RHSA-2008:0836 2008-08-21

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Andreas Solberg for responsibly disclosing this issue.

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