Your submission was sent successfully! Close

Thank you for contacting us. A member of our team will be in touch shortly. Close

You have successfully unsubscribed! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates about Ubuntu and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

CVE-2008-3281

Publication date 27 August 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libxml2 8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1
7.10 gutsy
Fixed 2.6.30.dfsg-2ubuntu1.2
7.04 feisty
Fixed 2.6.27.dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 2.6.24.dfsg-1ubuntu1.2

Notes

kees

earlier patches broke ABI (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459830) USN-644-1 updates this fix to match upstream patches.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
libxml2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-640-1
    • libxml2 vulnerability
    • 3 September 2008
    • USN-644-1
    • libxml2 vulnerabilities
    • 11 September 2008

Other references