FKIE_CVE-2008-4226
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-11-25 23:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:57
Severity
Summary
Integer overflow in the xmlSAX2Characters function in libxml2 2.7.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large XML document.
References
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