CVE-2009-2473
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 21, 2009
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 15, 2009
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [neon] 20090818 neon: release 0.28.6 (SECURITY)mailing-list
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9461vdb-entrysignature
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- SUSE-SR:2009:018vendor-advisory
- ADV-2009-2341vdb-entry
- MDVSA-2009:221vendor-advisory
- APPLE-SA-2010-11-10-1vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2013:0131vendor-advisory
- 36371third-party-advisory
- FEDORA-2009-8815vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2009-8794vendor-advisory
- neon-xml-dos(52633)vdb-entry
- [neon] 20090818 CVE-2009-2473: fix for "billion laughs" attack against expatmailing-list
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