OpenPKG Security Advisory
OpenPKG-SA-2004.003
Publisher Name: OpenPKG GmbH Publisher Home: http://openpkg.com/ Advisory Id (public): OpenPKG-SA-2004.003 Advisory Type: OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA) Advisory Directory: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA Advisory Document: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2004.003 Advisory Published: 2010-02-09 18:37 UTC Issue Id (internal): OpenPKG-SI-20040305.01 Issue First Created: 2004-03-05 Issue Last Modified: 2006-11-28 Issue Revision: 07
Subject Name: Libxml Subject Summary: Extensible Markup Language (XML) Parsing Library Subject Home: http://xmlsoft.org/ Subject Versions: * <= 2.6.5 Vulnerability Id: none Vulnerability Scope: global (not OpenPKG specific) Attack Feasibility: run-time Attack Vector: local system Attack Impact: arbitrary code execution Description: A flaw in the HTTP and FTP client sub-library of libxml2 [0] found by Yuuichi Teranishi can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow if passed a very long URL [1]. This could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the host computer. References: [0] http://xmlsoft.org/ [1] http://xmlsoft.org/news.html [2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2004-0110 [3] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-source [4] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-binary [5] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.3/UPD/libxml-2.5.8-1.3.1.src.rpm [6] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.3/UPD/ [7] http://www.openpkg.org/security.html#signature
Primary Package Name: libxml Primary Package Home: http://openpkg.org/go/package/libxml Affected Distribution: Affected Branch: Affected Package: OpenPKG Community 1.3-SOLID libxml-2.5.8-1.3.0 OpenPKG Community 2.0-SOLID n/a OpenPKG Community CURRENT libxml-2.6.5-20040126 Corrected Distribution: Corrected Branch: Corrected Package: OpenPKG Community 1.3-SOLID libxml-2.5.8-1.3.1 OpenPKG Community 2.0-SOLID n/a OpenPKG Community CURRENT libxml-2.6.6-20040212
