fkie_cve-2009-3627
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2009-10-29 14:30
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://github.com/gisle/html-parser/commit/b9aae1e43eb2c8e989510187cff0ba3e996f9a4c
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/37155Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/9Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36807Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530604
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53941
secalert@redhat.comhttps://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://github.com/gisle/html-parser/commit/b9aae1e43eb2c8e989510187cff0ba3e996f9a4c
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/37155Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/9Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36807Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530604
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53941
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
derrick_oswald html-parser *
derrick_oswald html-parser 1.00
derrick_oswald html-parser 1.1
derrick_oswald html-parser 1.2
derrick_oswald html-parser 1.3
derrick_oswald html-parser 1.4
derrick_oswald html-parser 1.5
derrick_oswald html-parser 1.6
derrick_oswald html-parser 1.41
derrick_oswald html-parser 1.42


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