Vulnerability in Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux
CVE-2007-6284
The xmlCurrentChar function in libxml2 before 2.6.31 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via XML containing invalid UTF-8 sequences.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.026 (85.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 85.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux — versions 2007, 2007.1, 2008.0
- Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server — versions 3.0, 4.0
- Debian Linux — versions 3.1, 4.0
- Red Hat Fedora — versions 7, 8
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/28439 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-20.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28466 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1033/references (vdb-entry)
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1461 (vendor-advisory)
- usn.ubuntu.com/569-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490306/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5216 (signature, vdb-entry)