>> Libxml2 "xmlCurrentChar()" UTF-8 Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : Libxml2 "xmlCurrentChar()" UTF-8 Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0117 CVE ID : CVE-2007-6284
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-01-14
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Libxml2, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by infinite loop errors in the "xmlCurrentChar()" [parserInternals.c] function when parsing certain UTF-8 sequences, which could be exploited to create a denial of service condition via specially crafted XML data.
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