CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-0338

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2013-04-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-04-25
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

libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka "internal entity expansion" with linear complexity.

Affected configurations

• xmlsoft libxml2 (<= 2.9.0) • xmlsoft libxml2 1.7.0 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.7.1 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.7.2 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.7.3 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.7.4 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.8.0 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.8.1 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.8.2 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.8.3 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.8.4 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.8.5 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.8.6 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.8.7 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.8.9 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.8.10 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.8.13 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.8.14 • xmlsoft libxml2 1.8.16 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.0.0 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.1.0 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.1.1 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.2.0 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.2.1 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.2.2 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.2.3 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.2.4 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.2.5 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.2.6 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.2.7 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.2.8 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.2.9 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.2.10 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.2.11 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.0 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.1 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.2 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.3 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.4 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.5 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.6 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.7 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.8 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.9 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.10 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.11 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.12 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.13 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.3.14 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.4.1 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.4.2 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.4.3 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.4.4 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.4.5 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.4.6 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.4.7 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.4.8 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.4.9 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.4.10 • xmlsoft libxml2 2.4.11 … and 73 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References