cve-2008-4482
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-10-08 01:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:17
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
The XML parser in Xerces-C++ before 3.0.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via an XML schema definition with a large maxOccurs value, which triggers excessive memory consumption during validation of an XML file.
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