CVE-2008-4225: Integer Overflow
First published: Fri Nov 07 2008(Updated: )
Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=322846&action=diff" name="attach_322846" title="Proposed patch from Drew Yao">attachment 322846</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=322846&action=edit" title="Proposed patch from Drew Yao">[details]</a></span> Proposed patch from Drew Yao Description of problem: Drew Yao of Apple Product Security has reported an integer overflow present in xmlBufferResize function in the libxml2 library potentially leading to an infinite loop. User could provide a very large XML file for parsing to the XML parsing library, which could allow him to cause a denial of service. Proposed patch: See attachment. Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security team for reporting this issue.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Libxml2 | =2.7.2 |
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