MGASA-2014-0418

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CVE-2014-3660
Published: 23 Oct 2014, 13:27
Last modified:16 Apr 2026, 06:24

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

23 Oct 2014, 13:27
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
16 Apr 2026, 06:24
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would lead to excessive CPU consumption (denial of service) based on excessive entity substitutions, even if entity substitution was disabled, which is the parser default behavior (CVE-2014-3660).

Affected Systems

  • mageia•libxml2

    < 2.9.0-5.4.mga3

  • mageia•libxml2

    < 2.9.1-2.2.mga4

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