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

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)

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