Secunia Security Advisory - NetBSD has acknowledged a vulnerability in proplib, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
NetBSD proplib Undefined XML Element Denial of Service
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35556
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35556/
DESCRIPTION:
NetBSD has acknowledged a vulnerability in proplib, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference error
when processing XML files containing an undefined element. This can
be exploited to e.g. crash a vulnerable system.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the CVS repository. See vendor advisory for details.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Adam Hamsik.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
NetBSD-SA2009-003:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-003.txt.asc
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