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CVE-2007-6284

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-6284 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in libxml2 versions prior to 2.6.31, affecting products like Debian, Mandrakesoft, and Red Hat. Attackers can trigger an infinite loop by providing specially crafted XML containing invalid UTF-8 sequences. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a potential denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1:*:alpha:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1:*:amd64:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1:*:arm:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1:*:hppa:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0257 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: libxml2-0:2.4.19-7.ent
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: libxml2-0:2.5.10-8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: libxml2-0:2.6.16-10.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libxml2-0:2.6.26-2.1.2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-6284Important

libxml2: infinite loop in UTF-8 decoding

Jan 11, 2008

References

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html
lists.vmware.com / pipermail/security-announce/2008/000009.html
mail.gnome.org / archives/xml/2008-January/msg00036.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/28439
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28444
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28450
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28452
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28458
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28466
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28470
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28475
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28636
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28716
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28740
secunia.com / advisories/29591
secunia.com / advisories/31074
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200801-20.xml
securitytracker.com / id
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-2121
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11594
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5216
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-047.htm
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-050.htm
usn.ubuntu.com / 569-1
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00379.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00396.html
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1461
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0032.html
Patch
securityfocus.com / archive/1/486410/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/490306/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/27248
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0117
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0144
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1033/references
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2094/references
xmlsoft.org / news.html