351954 – dev-libs/libxml2 CVE-2010-4494 remote xpath vulnerability

Bug 351954 - dev-libs/libxml2 CVE-2010-4494 remote xpath vulnerability

Summary: dev-libs/libxml2 CVE-2010-4494 remote xpath vulnerability

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 345555

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High critical (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://secunia.com/advisories/42721/
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Reported:	2011-01-17 23:45 UTC by Sylvia
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:40 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Sylvia 2011-01-17 23:45:27 UTC

A vulnerability has been reported in Libxml2, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise an application using the library.
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adv on secunia.com - http://secunia.com/advisories/42721/
debian security - http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2137
MITRE - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4494
debian bugzilla - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607922


Patches available:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=df83c17e5a2646bd923f75e5e507bc80d73c9722

http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=fec31bcd452e77c10579467ca87a785b41115de6

Comment 1 Sylvia 2011-01-17 23:54:55 UTC

reported here as well - http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345555#c3
can be somewhat duplicate of bug #345555

Comment 2 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2011-01-17 23:57:08 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 345555 ***