libxml2 could be made to cause a denial of service by consuming excessive CPU resources.
Juraj Somorovsky discovered that libxml2 was vulnerable to hash table collisions. If a user or application linked against libxml2 were tricked into opening a specially crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service.
27 February 2012
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
libxml2 could be made to cause a denial of service by consuming excessive CPU resources.
Juraj Somorovsky discovered that libxml2 was vulnerable to hash table collisions. If a user or application linked against libxml2 were tricked into opening a specially crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.
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