Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-204 - A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would lead to excessive CPU consumption based on excessive entity substitutions, even if entity substitution was disabled, which is the parser default behavior. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:204
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : libxml2
Date : October 23, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in libxml2:
A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2, a library providing
support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker
could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by
an application using libxml2, would lead to excessive CPU consumption
(denial of service) based on excessive entity substitutions, even if
entity substitution was disabled, which is the parser default behavior
(CVE-2014-3660).
The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3660
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1655.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
10f0b697d74bb43541fa44591b371022 mbs1/x86_64/lib64xml2_2-2.7.8-14.20120229.2.5.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
fe33c30d93121eacdc0427bf0ab7632b mbs1/x86_64/lib64xml2-devel-2.7.8-14.20120229.2.5.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
5217346251b71bcc1d67487927fc32ea mbs1/x86_64/libxml2-python-2.7.8-14.20120229.2.5.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
ca9e4d6e5ab7d653d0a7018e85e88f74 mbs1/x86_64/libxml2-utils-2.7.8-14.20120229.2.5.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
a38394955394617cfa41071c23e714e1 mbs1/SRPMS/libxml2-2.7.8-14.20120229.2.5.mbs1.src.rpm
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