CVE-2009-2414

Summary

CVECVE-2009-2414
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-08-11 18:30:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 01:17:00 UTC
DescriptionStack 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Xmlsoft Libxml 1.8.17 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml 1.8.17 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.5.10 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.16 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.26 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.27 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.32 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.5.10 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.16 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.26 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.27 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.32 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
About Security Update 2009-006 / Mac OS X v10.6.2 CONFIRM support.apple.com
Codenomicon Labs | XML Security and Fuzzing MISC www.codenomicon.com
CVE-2009-2414 / CVE-2009-2416 CONFIRM www.openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Fedora update for mingw32-libxml2 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
CERT-FI - CERT-FI Advisory on XML libraries MISC www.cert.fi
APPLE-SA-2009-11-09-1 Security Update 2009-006 / Mac OS X v10.6.2 APPLE lists.apple.com
libxml2 DTD Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Bug#540865: libxml2: CVE-2009-2414, CVE-2009-2416 pointer-user-after-fre MISC www.mail-archive.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:015 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: libxml2-2.7.3-2.fc10 FEDORA www.redhat.com
About the security content of iOS 4 CONFIRM support.apple.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
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APPLE-SA-2010-06-21-1 iOS 4 APPLE lists.apple.com
libxml2 Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
Bug#540865: libxml2: CVE-2009-2414, CVE-2009-2416 pointer-user-after-fre MLIST www.mail-archive.com Exploit
Apple Safari Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Bug 515195 – CVE-2009-2414 libxml, libxml2, mingw32-libxml2: Stack overflow by parsing root XML element DTD definition CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
libxml2 - XML parser and markup toolkit CONFIRM git.gnome.org
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: mingw32-libxml2-2.7.3-2.fc11 FEDORA www.redhat.com
VMSA-2009-0016.1 CONFIRM www.vmware.com
Sun libxml2 DTD Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
APPLE-SA-2009-11-11-1 Safari 4.0.4 APPLE lists.apple.com
XML flaw threatens apps built with Sun, Apache, Python libraries - Network World MISC www.networkworld.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1859-1 libxml2 DEBIAN www.debian.org Patch
About the security content of Safari 4.0.4 CONFIRM support.apple.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
VMware ESX and vMA Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
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