CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2473
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-21
- 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-399
Description
neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
Affected configurations
• webdav neon 0.28.6
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001044.html lists.manyfish.co.uk
- http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001045.html lists.manyfish.co.uk
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0131.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36371 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 support.apple.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:221 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2341 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52633 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9461 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00924.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00945.html www.redhat.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001044.html lists.manyfish.co.uk
- http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001045.html lists.manyfish.co.uk
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0131.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36371 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 support.apple.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:221 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2341 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52633 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9461 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00924.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00945.html www.redhat.com