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CVE-2013-2210

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2013-06-28 apache-xml-security-c -- heap overflow during XPointer evaluation

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2013-2210
Phase Assigned(20130219)

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the XML Signature Reference functionality in Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ (aka xml-security-c) before 1.7.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via malformed XPointer expressions. NOTE: this is due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-2154.

References

Source Reference
FULLDISC 20130626 CVE-2013-2210
CONFIRM http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2013-2210.txt
DEBIAN DSA-2717