CVE-2009-3627 (GCVE-0-2009-3627)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-10-29 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:38
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Summary
The decode_entities function in util.c in HTML-Parser before 3.63 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an incomplete SGML numeric character reference, which triggers generation of an invalid UTF-8 character.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2009-10-23 00:00
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