CVE-2008-3281
CVE-2008-3281
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This page shows selected source facts. See the linked advisories for the complete description and affected versions.
libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document.
CVSS 6.5 · Medium · EPSS 2.5% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
Original sources
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/644-1/
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31855
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020728
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00347.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0836.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32807
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31982
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2971
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0017.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2843
- http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31590
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497962/100/0/threaded
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-640-1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31728
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32488
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3281