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CVE-2009-2414

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Date: August 11, 2009

Stack consumption vulnerability in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large depth of element declarations in a DTD, related to a function recursion, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Language: C

Severity Score

3.7

Related Resources (39)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/36338

Url: http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/080509-xml-flaw.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3217

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/36417

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2420

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-09/msg00001.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1859

Url: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/08/stable-update-security-fixes.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/36631

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/37346

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-815-1

Url: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=489f9671e71cc44a97b23111b3126ac8a1e21a59

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00001.html

Url: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg678527.html

Url: http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2009-2414-2416.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/37471

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2009-2414

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00537.html

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00642.html

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/36207

Url: http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36010

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2414

Url: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html

Url: http://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35036

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00003.html

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00547.html

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515195

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3949

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8639

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10129

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2009-2414

Severity Score

3.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.7
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2009-2414

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Date: August 11, 2009

Language: C

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Related Resources (39)

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