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libxml2: buffer overflow

Package(s):libxml2 CVE #(s):CVE-2008-3529
Created:September 11, 2008 Updated:August 11, 2009
Description: From the Red Hat alert: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 handled long XML entity names. If an application linked against libxml2 processed untrusted malformed XML content, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-815-1 2009-08-11
Gentoo 200812-06 2008-12-02
rPath rPSA-2008-0325-1 2008-11-19
Debian DSA-1654-1 2008-10-14
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:018 2008-09-19
Ubuntu USN-644-1 2008-09-11
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:192 2007-09-11
CentOS CESA-2008:0884 2008-09-11
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0886-01 2008-09-11
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0884-01 2008-09-11
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