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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-6284 Detail

Description

The xmlCurrentChar function in libxml2 before 2.6.31 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via XML containing invalid UTF-8 sequences.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202628 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000009.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-January/msg00036.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/28439 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28444 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28450 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28452 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28458 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28466 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28470 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28475 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28636 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28716 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28740 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/29591 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31074 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-20.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019181 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103201-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201514-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-047.htm CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-050.htm CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1461 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:010 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0032.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486410/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490306/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27248 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0117 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0144 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1033/references CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.xmlsoft.org/news.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425927 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2121 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11594 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5216 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://usn.ubuntu.com/569-1/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00379.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00396.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-6284
NVD Published Date:
01/11/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.