CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-2473

Published: Aug 21, 2009 | Modified: Sep 19, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.3 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Neon Webdav 0.28.6 (including) 0.28.6 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat neon-0:0.24.7-4.el4_8.2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat neon-0:0.25.5-10.el5_4.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat gnome-vfs2-0:2.16.2-10.el5 *

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