Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Andreas Solberg found a denial of service flaw in how libxml2 processed certain content. If an application linked against libxml2 processed such malformed XML content, it could cause the application to stop responding (CVE-2008-3281).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.
Affected
libxml2 on Mandriva Linux 2007.1,
Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2008.1,
Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-3281 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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