CVE-2007-6284

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 3.1, 4.0
Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: 2007, 2007.1, 2008.0
Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server: 3.0, 4.0
RedHat Fedora: 7, 8

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202628
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000009.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-January/msg00036.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28439
http://secunia.com/advisories/28444
http://secunia.com/advisories/28450
http://secunia.com/advisories/28452
http://secunia.com/advisories/28458
http://secunia.com/advisories/28466
http://secunia.com/advisories/28470
http://secunia.com/advisories/28475

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