MGASA-2014-0418

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / MGASA-2014-0418

    MGASA-2014-0418

    Published: 23 Oct 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-3660

    Summary: Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would lead to excessive CPU consumption (denial of service) based on excessive entity substitutions, even if entity substitution was disabled, which is the parser default behavior (CVE-2014-3660).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0418.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14315, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1655.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxml2

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.9.0-5.4.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
    MGASA-2014-0418 | CVE-DB