CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4482

7.8 HIGH Published 2008-10-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-10-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The XML parser in Xerces-C++ before 3.0.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via an XML schema definition with a large maxOccurs value, which triggers excessive memory consumption during validation of an XML file.

Affected configurations

• apache xerces-c\+\+ (<= 2.8.0) • apache xerces-c\+\+ 1.0.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 1.0.1 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 1.1.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 1.2.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 1.3.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 1.4.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 1.5.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 1.6.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 1.7.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 2.0.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 2.1.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 2.2.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 2.3.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 2.4.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 2.5.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 2.6.0 • apache xerces-c\+\+ 2.7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References