CVE-2013-0338

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-0338
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-04-25 23:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionlibxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka "internal entity expansion" with linear complexity.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 - lts All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 - lts All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.04 - lts All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.3 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.7.0 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.7.1 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.7.2 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.7.3 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.7.4 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.8.0 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.8.1 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.8.10 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.8.13 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.8.14 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.8.16 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.8.2 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.8.3 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.8.4 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.8.5 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.8.6 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.8.7 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 1.8.9 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.0.0 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.1.0 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.1.1 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.2.0 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.2.0 beta All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.2.1 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.2.10 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.2.11 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.2.2 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.2.3 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.2.4 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.2.5 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.2.6 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.2.7 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.2.8 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.2.9 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.0 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.1 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.10 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.11 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.12 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.13 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.14 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.2 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.3 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.4 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.5 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.6 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.7 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.8 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.3.9 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.1 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.10 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.11 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.12 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.13 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.14 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.15 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.16 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.17 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.18 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.19 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.2 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.20 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.21 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.22 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.23 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.24 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.25 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.26 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.27 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.28 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.29 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.3 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.30 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.4 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.5 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.6 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.7 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.8 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.4.9 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.5.0 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.5.10 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.5.11 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.5.4 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.5.7 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.5.8 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.0 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.1 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.11 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.12 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.13 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.14 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.16 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.17 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.18 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.2 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.20 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.21 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.22 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.23 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.24 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.25 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.26 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.27 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.28 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.29 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.3 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.30 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.31 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.32 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.4 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.5 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.6 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.7 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.8 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.6.9 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.7.0 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.7.1 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.7.2 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.7.3 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.7.4 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.7.5 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.7.6 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.7.7 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.7.8 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.9.0 rc1 All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxml2 All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
openSUSE-SU-2013:0552-1: moderate: libxml2: fixed two entity expansion p af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
'[security bulletin] HPSBGN03302 rev.1 - HP IceWall Federation Agent, Remote Denial of Service (DoS)' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
openSUSE-SU-2013:0555-1: moderate: libxml2: fixed two entity expansion p af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:056 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Security Advisory SA52662 - Debian update for libxml2 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
libxml2 - XML parser and markup toolkit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.gnome.org
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Oracle Critical Patch Update - January 2015 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com
Bug 912400 – CVE-2013-0338 libxml2: CPU consumption DoS when performing string substitutions during entities expansion af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:1627-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2652-1 libxml2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
USN-1782-1: libxml2 vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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