Automated analysis has detected that the following third party packages have had vulnerabilities publicly reported. 

NOTE: There may be several bugs listed below - in almost all cases, all bugs can be quickly addressed by upgrading to the latest version of the package.

Package Name: dev-libs/libxml2
Package Version: [cpe:/a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.9.6]

Advisory: CVE-2017-18258
  Details: https://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2017-18258
  CVSS severity score: 4.3/10.0
  Confidence: high
  Description:

The xz_head function in xzlib.c in libxml2 before 2.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted LZMA file, because the decoder functionality does not restrict memory usage to what is required for a legitimate file.