CVE-2013-0338

Description

libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka "internal entity expansion" with linear complexity.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00002.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00114.html

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142798889927587&w=2

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912400

http://secunia.com/advisories/52662

http://secunia.com/advisories/55568

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=23f05e0c33987d6605387b300c4be5da2120a7ab

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2652

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:056

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1782-1

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2