fkie_cve-2017-18258
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2018-04-08 17:29
Modified
2024-11-21 03:19
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
The xz_head function in xzlib.c in libxml2 before 2.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted LZMA file, because the decoder functionality does not restrict memory usage to what is required for a legitimate file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=e2a9122b8dde53d320750451e9907a7dcb2ca8bbPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00035.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190719-0001/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=e2a9122b8dde53d320750451e9907a7dcb2ca8bbPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00035.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190719-0001/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xmlsoft libxml2 *


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