CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5185
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-21
- 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
The highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an XML sequence containing an opening delimiter without a closing delimiter, as demonstrated using "<".
Affected configurations
• geshi geshi (<= 1.0.7.22)
• geshi geshi 1.0.0
• geshi geshi 1.0.1
• geshi geshi 1.0.2
• geshi geshi 1.0.2 beta 1
• geshi geshi 1.0.3
• geshi geshi 1.0.4
• geshi geshi 1.0.5
• geshi geshi 1.0.6
• geshi geshi 1.0.7
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.1
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.2
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.3
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.4
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.5
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.6
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.7
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.8
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.9
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.10
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.11
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.12
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.13
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.14
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.15
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.16
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.17
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.18
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.19
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.20
• geshi geshi 1.0.7.21
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/geshi.php?r1=1321&r2=1322&view=patch geshi.svn.sourceforge.net
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32377 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46769 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/geshi.php?r1=1321&r2=1322&view=patch geshi.svn.sourceforge.net
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32377 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46769 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com