Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-640-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Andreas Solberg discovered that libxml2 did not handle recursive entities safely. If an application linked against libxml2 were made to process a specially crafted XML document, a remote attacker could exhaust the system's CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
Affected
libxml2 vulnerability on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 7.04 ,
Ubuntu 7.10 ,
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-3281 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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