CVE-2011-1944
Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / CVE-2011-1944
Summary:
Details: Integer overflow in xpath.c in libxml2 2.6.x through 2.6.32 and 2.7.x through 2.7.8, and libxml 1.8.16 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted XML file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow when adding a new namespace node, related to handling of XPath expressions.
References: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0217.html, http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/05/libxml-vulnerability-and-interesting.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/44711, http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2255, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:131, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062238.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/8, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48056, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709747, http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=d7958b21e7f8c447a26bb2436f08402b2c308be4, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062238.html, http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/05/libxml-vulnerability-and-interesting.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/8, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709747, http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-07/msg00035.html, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503, http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1153-1, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html, http://www.osvdb.org/73248, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1749.html
