Description

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.0, as used in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a document that ends abruptly, related to the lack of certain checks for the XML_PARSER_EOF state.

References

ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.9.0.tar.gz

http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git;a=commit;h=e5d7f7e5dc21d3ae7be3cbb949ac4d8701e06de1

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html

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

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00063.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00077.html

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23

http://secunia.com/advisories/54172

http://secunia.com/advisories/55568

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2724

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2779

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61050

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1904-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1904-2

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=229019

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2