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libxml2: denial of service

Package(s):libxml2 CVE #(s):CVE-2003-1564
Created:September 11, 2008 Updated:December 4, 2009
Description: From the Red Hat alert: A denial of service flaw was found in the way libxml2 processed certain content. If an application linked against libxml2 processed malformed XML content, it could cause the application to use an excessive amount of CPU time and memory, and stop responding.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:314 2009-12-04
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:131-1 2009-06-06
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:131 2009-06-06
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0886-01 2008-09-11
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libxml2: denial of service

Posted Sep 18, 2008 13:19 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

It's nice to see that this CVE from *2003* is now plugged.

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