ubuntu · CVE-2011-1944

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Priority: medium Published: 2011-06-06 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2011-1944 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libxml2), 5 status rows across 5 suites (hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, upstream): released 5.

Description:

Integer overflow in xpath.c in libxml2 2.6.x through 2.6.32 and 2.7.x through 2.7.8, and libxml 1.8.16 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted XML file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow when adding a new namespace node, related to handling of XPath expressions.

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