CVE-2009-2414

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.

Affected products

Red Hat, Libxml, Libxml2

Xmlsoft Libxml

= 1.8.17

Xmlsoft libxml2

= 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, 2.6.32

Fix

Available

CVSS 2.0

4.3 MEDIUM

EPSS

3.1% (87th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-119

NVD status

Modified

Published

2009-08-11