Gentoo: GLSA-201905-10 Normal: libxml2 Security Vulnerability

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200801-20
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: libxml2: Denial of Service
      Date: January 30, 2008
      Bugs: #202628
        ID: 200801-20


Synopsis
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A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in libxml2.

Background
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libxml2 is the XML (eXtended Markup Language) C parser and toolkit
initially developed for the Gnome project.

Affected packages
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     Package           /   Vulnerable   /                   Unaffected
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  1  dev-libs/libxml2      < 2.6.30-r1                    >= 2.6.30-r1

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Brad Fitzpatrick reported that the xmlCurrentChar() function does not
properly handle some UTF-8 multibyte encodings.

Impact
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