CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-4409

Published: Oct 03, 2008 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libxml2 Xmlsoft 2.7.0 (including) 2.7.0 (including)
Libxml2 Xmlsoft 2.7.1 (including) 2.7.1 (including)
Libxml2 Ubuntu upstream *

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