CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4226
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
Integer overflow in the xmlSAX2Characters function in libxml2 2.7.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large XML document.
Affected configurations
• xmlsoft libxml 2.7.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
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- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml security.gentoo.org
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- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1666 Patch
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- http://www.osvdb.org/49993 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0988.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32326 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-673-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0001.html www.vmware.com
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- https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libxml2-2.7.2-2.fc10 Patch
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- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32762 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32764 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32766 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32773 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32802 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32807 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32811 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32872 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32974 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33417 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33746 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33792 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34247 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35379 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36173 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36235 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021238 securitytracker.com
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- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-126356-03-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-141243-01-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-251406-1 sunsolve.sun.com