CVE-2008-4225 Information

Description

Integer overflow in the xmlBufferResize function in libxml2 2.7.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a large XML document.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html http://secunia.com/advisories/32762 http://secunia.com/advisories/32764 http://secunia.com/advisories/32766 http://secunia.com/advisories/32773 http://secunia.com/advisories/32802 http://secunia.com/advisories/32807 http://secunia.com/advisories/32811 http://secunia.com/advisories/32974 http://secunia.com/advisories/33417 http://secunia.com/advisories/33746 http://secunia.com/advisories/33792 http://secunia.com/advisories/34247 http://secunia.com/advisories/35379 http://secunia.com/advisories/36173 http://secunia.com/advisories/36235 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1021239 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.473974 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-126356-03-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-141243-01-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-251406-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-261688-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-265329-1 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-002.htm http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-067.htm http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0325 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1666 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:231 http://www.osvdb.org/49992 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0988.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32331 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-673-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0001.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3176 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0034 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0301 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0323 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libxml2-2.7.2-2.fc10 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libxml2-2.7.2-2.fc9 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470480 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10025 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6234 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6415 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00472.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00513.html