CVE-2009-3560

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 4, 2009
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Oct 5, 2009

Description

The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://expat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expat/expat/lib/xmlparse.c?r1=1.164&r2=1.165
SSA:2011-041-02vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2009-12690vendor-advisory
38832third-party-advisory
1023278vdb-entry
USN-890-1vendor-advisory
38794third-party-advisory
[security-announce] 20100303 VMSA-2010-0004 ESX Service Console and vMA third party updatesmailing-list
ADV-2010-1107vdb-entry
DSA-1953vendor-advisory
41701third-party-advisory
SUSE-SR:2010:011vendor-advisory
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6883vdb-entrysignature
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12942vdb-entrysignature
SUSE-SR:2010:013vendor-advisory
[expat-bugs] 20091108 [ expat-Bugs-2894085 ] expat: buffer over-read and crash in big2_toUtf8()mailing-list
SUSE-SR:2010:001vendor-advisory
37203vdb-entry
USN-890-6vendor-advisory
http://expat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expat/expat/lib/xmlparse.c?view=log#rev1.165
FEDORA-2009-12737vendor-advisory
38231third-party-advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533174
SUSE-SR:2010:012vendor-advisory
38834third-party-advisory
39478third-party-advisory
FEDORA-2009-12716vendor-advisory
SUSE-SR:2010:014vendor-advisory
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10613vdb-entrysignature
37537third-party-advisory
43300third-party-advisory
RHSA-2011:0896vendor-advisory
ADV-2010-0896vdb-entry
273630vendor-advisory
HPSBUX02645vendor-advisory
ADV-2011-0359vdb-entry
MDVSA-2009:316vendor-advisory
ADV-2010-0528vdb-entry
[httpd-cvs] 20190815 svn commit: r1048742 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlmailing-list
[httpd-cvs] 20190815 svn commit: r1048743 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlmailing-list
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[httpd-cvs] 20200401 svn commit: r1058586 [3/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlmailing-list
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[httpd-cvs] 20200401 svn commit: r1058587 [3/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlmailing-list
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073139 [1/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/mailing-list
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1888194 [6/13] - /httpd/site/trunk/content/security/json/mailing-list
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073140 [3/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/cvejsontohtml.py security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlmailing-list
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073139 [6/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/mailing-list
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073140 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/cvejsontohtml.py security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlmailing-list
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073143 [2/3] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/mailing-list
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073149 [7/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/ security/json/mailing-list
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073146 [2/3] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/cvejsontohtml.py security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlmailing-list
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073149 [1/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/ security/json/mailing-list
[httpd-cvs] 20210603 svn commit: r1075360 [1/3] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/CVE-2021-31618.json security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlmailing-list
[httpd-cvs] 20210606 svn commit: r1075467 [1/2] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/CVE-2021-31618.json security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlmailing-list
[httpd-cvs] 20210606 svn commit: r1075470 [3/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/CVE-2020-13938.json security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlmailing-list

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