CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-3529

10.0 HIGH Published 2008-09-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-09-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseAttValueComplex function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.7.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long XML entity name.

Affected configurations

• xmlsoft libxml2 (< 2.7.0) • debian debian linux 4.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06 • canonical ubuntu linux 7.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 7.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 9.04 • apple safari (< 4.0) • apple safari (>= 3.2.0 < 3.2.3) • apple iphone os (< 3.0) • apple mac os x (< 10.5.7) • apple mac os x 10.5.7

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References