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Red Hat Security Advisory

RHSA-2008:0988

libxml2 security update

Released 2008-11-17 · Red Hat rating Important · View on Red Hat →

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Fixes 2 records

Priority MEDIUM 50

Integer overflow in the xmlSAX2Characters function in libxml2 2.7.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large XML document.

CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0 Network No auth Interaction — EPSS 0.04051 Published 2008-11-25 Fixed CWE-399