Input validation error in Libxml2 - CVE-2014-3660

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Input validation error in Libxml2 - CVE-2014-3660

Published: October 25, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU82372
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3660
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows context-dependent attackers to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a variant of the "billion laughs" attack.


Affected software

Libxml2
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
IBM Integrated Management Module
libxml2
dev-libs/libxml2

How to mitigate CVE-2014-3660

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..

Libxml2 - update to 2.9.2
IBM Integrated Management Module - update to 1.48 YUOOG8C
libxml2 - addressed in versions 2.9.1-6.fc21, 2.9.1-7.fc21
dev-libs/libxml2 - update to 2.9.2

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