A vulnerability was found in libxml2 up to 2.6.28 (Document Processing Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function xmlNanoHTTPMethodRedir. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability.

The weakness was published 02/05/2008 by Antonio Messina as 464173 as not defined bug report (Website). The advisory is available at bugs.debian.org. The vendor was not involved in the coordination of the public release. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by Antonio Messina. The exploit is available at bugs.debian.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 2.6.32 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at git.gnome.org. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.gnome.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version. A possible mitigation has been published 1 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

Similar entries are available at VDB-193905, VDB-198884, VDB-203222 and VDB-214229.

Productinfo

Type

• Document Processing Software

Name

• libxml2

Version

• 2.6.0
• 2.6.1
• 2.6.2
• 2.6.3
• 2.6.4
• 2.6.5
• 2.6.6
• 2.6.7
• 2.6.8
• 2.6.9
• 2.6.10
• 2.6.11
• 2.6.12
• 2.6.13
• 2.6.14
• 2.6.15
• 2.6.16
• 2.6.17
• 2.6.18
• 2.6.19
• 2.6.20
• 2.6.21
• 2.6.22
• 2.6.23
• 2.6.24
• 2.6.25
• 2.6.26
• 2.6.27
• 2.6.28

License

• open-source

CPE 2.3info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CPE 2.2info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CVSSv4info

CVSSv3info

CVSSv2info

Exploitinginfo

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Countermeasuresinfo

Timelineinfo

Sourcesinfo

Entryinfo

Discussion