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libxml2 'xmlCurrentChar()' UTF-8 Parsing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• Bugzilla Bug 425927: CVE-2007-6284 libxml2: infinite loop in UTF-8 decoding (Red Hat)
  
• [xml] Security flaw affecting all previous libxml2 releases (Daniel Veillard)
  
• Sun Alert ID: 103201 - Security Vulnerability in the libxml2 Library may Lead to (Sun Microsystems)
  
• VideoLAN Changelog/0.8.6h (VideoLAN)
  
• VLC Homepage (VideoLAN)
  
• XMLSoft Changelog (XMLSoft)
  
• XMLSoft Homepage (XMLSoft)
  
• XMLSoft News (XMLSoft)
  
• 2008008708: Nortel response to Sun Alert 201514 - Security Vulnerability in the (Nortel Networks)
  
• ASA-2008-050 - libxml2 security update (RHSA-2008-0032) (Avaya)
  
• RHSA-2008:0032-3: libxml2 security update (Red Hat)