It was discovered that libxml2 loaded external parameter entities even when entity substitution was disabled. A remote attacker able to provide a specially crafted XML file to an application linked against libxml2 could use this flaw to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks, possibly resulting in a denial of service or an information leak on the system.
Find out more about CVE-2014-0191 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (libxml2) | RHSA-2015:0749 | 2015-03-30 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (libxml2) | RHSA-2014:0513 | 2014-05-19 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | mingw32-libxml2 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | libxml2 | Fix deferred |
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