CVE-2013-0338 Information

Description

libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity aka \internal entity expansion\ with linear complexity.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00114.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142798889927587&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/52662 http://secunia.com/advisories/55568 http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2652 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:056 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1782-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912400 https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=23f05e0c33987d6605387b300c4be5da2120a7ab