CVE-2009-1885 (GCVE-0-2009-1885)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-08-11 18:00
Modified
2024-08-07 05:27
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in "simply nested DTD structures," as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.
References
secalert@redhat.com http://secunia.com/advisories/36201 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/c/trunk/src/xercesc/validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp?r1=781488&r2=781487&pathrev=781488&view=patch
secalert@redhat.com http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=781488 Exploit
secalert@redhat.com http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html
secalert@redhat.com http://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/
secalert@redhat.com http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:223
secalert@redhat.com http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/080509-xml-flaw.html
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35986
secalert@redhat.com http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2196 Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515515 Patch
secalert@redhat.com https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52321
secalert@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01001.html
secalert@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01099.html
secalert@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01136.html
secalert@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01150.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/36201 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/c/trunk/src/xercesc/validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp?r1=781488&r2=781487&pathrev=781488&view=patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=781488 Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:223
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/080509-xml-flaw.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35986
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2196 Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515515 Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52321
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01001.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01099.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01136.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01150.html
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