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HTML-Parser "decode_entities()" Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA37155
Release Date: 2009-10-26
Popularity: 974 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:HTML-Parser 3.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in HTML-Parser, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service)

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the "decode_entities()" function in utils.c, which can be exploited to cause an infinite loop by tricking an application into processing a specially crafted string using this library.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.63.

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