ghsa-x9c5-c5mj-wjjx
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-01 23:58
Modified
2024-02-02 15:30
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2008-3281"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-776"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2008-08-27T20:41:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document.",
  "id": "GHSA-x9c5-c5mj-wjjx",
  "modified": "2024-02-02T15:30:27Z",
  "published": "2022-05-01T23:58:24Z",
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458086"
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      "url": "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6496"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9812"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0836.html"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/644-1"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00261.html"
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      "url": "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00347.html"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html"
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      "url": "http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000039.html"
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      "type": "WEB",
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      "type": "WEB",
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    {
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/31855"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/31982"
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    {
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      "type": "WEB",
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}


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