MGASA-2014-0214

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    MGASA-2014-0214

    Published: 10 May 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-0191

    Summary: Updated libxml2 packages fix CVE-2014-0191

    Details: Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability: It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substituton in the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any entity substitution. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted XML file that, when processed, would lead to the exhaustion of CPU and memory resources or file descriptors (CVE-2014-0191).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0214.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090976, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13338

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxml2

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/libxml2?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.9.0-5.3.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High