CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-0338
4.3 MEDIUM
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- 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
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00114.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142798889927587&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52662 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55568 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2652 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:056 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1782-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912400 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=23f05e0c33987d6605387b300c4be5da2120a7ab git.gnome.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00114.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142798889927587&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52662 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55568 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2652 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:056 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1782-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912400 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=23f05e0c33987d6605387b300c4be5da2120a7ab git.gnome.org