fkie_cve-2008-4226
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2008-11-25 23:30
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
Integer overflow in the xmlSAX2Characters function in libxml2 2.7.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large XML document.
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