CVE-2009-3627 (GCVE-0-2009-3627)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-10-29 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:38
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The decode_entities function in util.c in HTML-Parser before 3.63 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an incomplete SGML numeric character reference, which triggers generation of an invalid UTF-8 character.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/9 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530604 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36807 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/37155 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.c… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://github.com/gisle/html-parser/commit/b9aae1… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2009-10-23 00:00
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