CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4409
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
libxml2 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 does not properly handle "predefined entities definitions" in entities, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash), as demonstrated by use of xmllint on a certain XML document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-1564 and CVE-2008-3281.
Affected configurations
• xmlsoft libxml2 2.7.0
• xmlsoft libxml2 2.7.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554660 Exploit
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html lists.apple.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/4 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32130 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32175 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32974 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35379 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613 support.apple.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639 support.apple.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:212 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31555 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45633 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00125.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00130.html www.redhat.com
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554660 Exploit
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html lists.apple.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/4 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32130 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32175 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32974 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35379 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613 support.apple.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639 support.apple.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:212 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31555 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45633 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00125.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00130.html www.redhat.com