Users of libxml2 please be advised of a buffer overflow vulnerability that has been identified.
To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)
Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
USN-1016-1: [USN-1016-1] libxml2 buffer overflow vulnerability
Details follow:
Bui Quang Minh discovered that libxml2 did not properly process XPath
namespaces and attributes. If an application using libxml2 opened a
specially crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or
possibly execute code as the user invoking the program.
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/f5ze
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