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Tracker / CVE-2008-3281

CVE-2008-3281

Medium 6.5

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.

Affected products and versions

apple iphone_os · 1.0.0 → 3.0
apple safari · … → 4.0
canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
fedoraproject fedora
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop
redhat enterprise_linux_eus
redhat enterprise_linux_server
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation
vmware esx
xmlsoft libxml2 · … → 2.6.32

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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