CVE-2008-4226

Impact

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 products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02029444
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.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/32872
• 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?1021238
• 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