Vigil@nce: expat, denial of service via hash collision
March 2012 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can send data generating storage collisions, in order
to overload a service.
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 12/03/2012
IMPACTED PRODUCTS
– Unix - plateform
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The bulletin VIGILANCE-VUL-11254 describes a vulnerability which
can be used to create a denial of service on several applications.
This vulnerability impacts expat, a library to parse XML documents.
In order to simplify VIGILANCE-VUL-11254, which was too big,
solutions for expat were moved here.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/expat-denial-of-service-via-hash-collision-11420