A vulnerability has been identified in Libxml2, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by infinite loop errors in the "xmlCurrentChar()" [parserInternals.c] function when parsing certain UTF-8 sequences, which could be exploited to create a denial of service condition via specially crafted XML data.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Brad Fitzpatrick (Google).
ChangeLog
2008-01-14 : Initial release
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