Security Advisory

CVE-2018-9251

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-04-04 02:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 07:17:51
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The xz_decomp function in xzlib.c in libxml2 2.9.8, if --with-lzma is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted XML file that triggers LZMA_MEMLIMIT_ERROR, as demonstrated by xmllint, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8035.