openembedded-core.git/meta/recipes-core/libxml/libxml2/libxml2-CVE-2014-0191-fix.patch, branch dizzy Mirror of openembedded-core libxml2: fix CVE-2014-0191 2014-05-08T12:00:23+00:00 Maxin B. John maxin.john@enea.com 2014-05-07T12:24:15+00:00 674bd59d5e357a4aba18c472ac21712a660a84af It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substituton in the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any entity substitution. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted XML file that, when processed, would lead to the exhaustion of CPU and memory resources or file descriptors. Reference: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0191 Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@enea.com> Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com> 
It was discovered that libxml2, a library providing support to read,
modify and write XML files, incorrectly performs entity substituton in
the doctype prolog, even if the application using libxml2 disabled any
entity substitution. A remote attacker could provide a
specially-crafted XML file that, when processed, would lead to the
exhaustion of CPU and memory resources or file descriptors.

Reference: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0191

Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@enea.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>