Description (CNA)
libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka "internal entity expansion" with linear complexity.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52662
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00114.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00002.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912400
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142798889927587&w=2
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2652
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142798889927587&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55568
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=23f05e0c33987d6605387b300c4be5da2120a7ab
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1782-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:056
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52662
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00114.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00002.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912400
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142798889927587&w=2
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2652
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142798889927587&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55568
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=23f05e0c33987d6605387b300c4be5da2120a7ab
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1782-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:056