CVE-2008-4409

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.

Affected products

Libxml2

Xmlsoft libxml2

= 2.7.0, 2.7.1

Fix

Available

CVSS 2.0

5.0 MEDIUM

EPSS

8.5% (95th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-399

NVD status

Modified

Published

2008-10-03