oss-security - libxml2 "ampproblem" DoS

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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:41:18 +0200
From: Robert Buchholz <rbu@...too.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: veillard@...hat.com
Subject: libxml2 "ampproblem" DoS

Hey,

I did not look into this issue closely yet, but I can reproduce an OOM 
situation on libxml2 2.7.1, but not on 2.6.32.

The malicious XML file can be found on
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554660

I'm not sure if and how this is related to CVE-2008-3281.

Robert

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