CVE-2009-2473

CVE Details

Release Date:	2009-08-18
Impact:	Low	What is this?

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.

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (neon)	ELSA-2009-1452	2009-09-21
Oracle Linux version 5 (gnome-vfs2)	ELSA-2013-0131	2013-01-11
Oracle Linux version 5 (neon)	ELSA-2009-1452	2009-09-21