CVE-2009-3627
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 29, 2009
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 9, 2009
Description
The decode_entities function in util.c in HTML-Parser before 3.63 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an incomplete SGML numeric character reference, which triggers generation of an invalid UTF-8 character.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- ADV-2009-3022vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20091023 CVE-2009-3627 assignment notification - HTML-Parser-3.63mailing-list
- htmlparser-decodeentities-dos(53941)vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530604
- 36807vdb-entry
- 37155third-party-advisory
- https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225
- http://github.com/gisle/html-parser/commit/b9aae1e43eb2c8e989510187cff0ba3e996f9a4c
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