FKIE_CVE-2008-4409
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-10-03 17:41 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:57
Severity
Summary
libxml2 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 does not properly handle "predefined entities definitions" in entities, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash), as demonstrated by use of xmllint on a certain XML document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-1564 and CVE-2008-3281.
References
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