CVE-2014-3660

CVE Details

Release Date:

2014-10-16

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would lead to excessive CPU consumption (denial of service) based on excessive entity substitutions, even if entity substitution was disabled, which is the parser default behavior.

See more information about CVE-2014-3660 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (libxml2)	ELSA-2014-1885	2014-11-20
Oracle Linux version 6 (libxml2)	ELSA-2014-1655	2014-10-16
Oracle Linux version 7 (libxml2)	ELSA-2014-1655	2014-10-16
Oracle VM version 3.2 (libxml2)	OVMSA-2016-0063	2016-06-20
Oracle VM version 3.3 (libxml2)	OVMSA-2014-0031	2014-11-03

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