CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2414

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2009-08-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-08-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large depth of element declarations in a DTD, related to a function recursion, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Affected configurations

• xmlsoft libxml 1.8.17 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.5.10 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.6.16 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.6.26 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.6.27 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.6.32

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References