CVE-2008-4409 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4409
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Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45633 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32130 Secunia Advisory: SA32175 Secunia Advisory: SA32974 Secunia Advisory: SA35379 MLIST http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/4 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:212 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml FEDORA CONFIRM http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554660 BID 31555 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html

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