CVE-2021-4249

Summary

CVECVE-2021-4249
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-18 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:40:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability was found in xml-conduit. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file xml-conduit/src/Text/XML/Stream/Parse.hs of the component DOCTYPE Entity Expansion Handler. The manipulation leads to infinite loop. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Upgrading to version 1.9.1.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 4be1021791dcdee8b164d239433a2043dc0939ea. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216204.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-404

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Haskell Xml-conduit All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
xml-conduit: Pure-Haskell utilities for dealing with XML with the conduit package. N/A hackage.haskell.org
Resolve entities defined in DOCTYPE recursively. by jgm · Pull Request #161 · snoyberg/xml · GitHub N/A github.com
CVE-2021-4249 | xml-conduit DOCTYPE Entity Expansion Parse.hs infinite loop (ID 161) N/A vuldb.com
Resolve entities defined in DOCTYPE recursively · snoyberg/xml@4be1021 · GitHub N/A github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 184285 Debian Security Update for haskell-xml-conduit (CVE-2021-4249)
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