CVE-2009-2414

CVE Details

Release Date:

2009-08-11

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large depth of element declarations in a DTD, related to a function recursion, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

See more information about CVE-2009-2414 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (libxml)	ELSA-2009-1206	2009-08-10
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (libxml2)	ELSA-2009-1206	2009-08-10
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (libxml2)	ELSA-2009-1206	2009-08-10
Oracle Linux version 5 (libxml2)	ELSA-2009-1206	2009-08-10

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