cve-2008-4409
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-10-03 17:18
Modified
2024-08-07 10:17
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
libxml2 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 does not properly handle "predefined entities definitions" in entities, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash), as demonstrated by use of xmllint on a certain XML document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-1564 and CVE-2008-3281.
References
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