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TITLE:
libxml2 Hash Collision Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA48000

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-02-22

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in libxml2, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within certain hash
functions and can be exploited to cause a hash collision resulting in
high CPU consumption.

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.7.8. Other version may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.

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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Red Hat bug report by Juraj Somorovsky

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787067

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