National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0841

Overview

libxml2 before 2.8.0 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: BID

Name: 52107

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52107

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_0841_denial_of

Hyperlink:https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_0841_denial_of

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

Hyperlink:http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2013-1899555.html

Hyperlink:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2013-1899555.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120222 libxml2: hash table collisions CPU usage DoS

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/22/1

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2417

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2417

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1026723

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1026723

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2013:0217

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0217.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:0324

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0324.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=8973d58b7498fa5100a876815476b81fd1a2412a

Hyperlink:http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=8973d58b7498fa5100a876815476b81fd1a2412a

External Source: MISC

Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660846

Hyperlink:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660846