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CVE-2013-0338

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 dec…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
XmlsoftLibxml2
through 2.9.0
Versions 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
OpensuseOpensuse
Versions 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

Weakness classification

CWE-119

References