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.
Find out more about CVE-2014-3660 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| 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-2014:1655 | 2014-10-16 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (libxml2) | RHSA-2014:1655 | 2014-10-16 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (libxml2) | RHSA-2014:1885 | 2014-11-20 |
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