Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-18258  

A security issue has been found in libxml2 <= 2.9.6 compiled with LZMA support enabled, in the xz_head function in xzlib.c. This flaw allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via unbounded memory consumption, using a crafted XML payload.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

A security issue has been found in libxml2 <= 2.9.6 compiled with LZMA support enabled, in the xz_head function in xzlib.c. This flaw allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via unbounded memory consumption, using a crafted XML payload.

AVG-671 libxml2 2.9.5+6+g07e227ed-1 2.9.6+3+g5af594d8-1 Medium Fixed

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786696
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=e2a9122b8dde53d320750451e9907a7dcb2ca8bb