CVE-2008-3529

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2008-09-11
CWE:
CWE-122
Bugzilla:
461015: CVE-2008-3529 libxml2: long entity name heap buffer overflow

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseAttValueComplex function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.7.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long XML entity name.

Find out more about CVE-2008-3529 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (libxml2) RHSA-2008:0884 2008-09-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (libxml2) RHSA-2008:0886 2008-09-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (libxml2) RHSA-2008:0884 2008-09-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (libxml2) RHSA-2008:0884 2008-09-11

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