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CVE-2009-1885

Published: 11/08/2009 Updated: 17/08/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in "simply nested DTD structures," as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

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apache xerces-c\\+\\+ 2.7.0

apache xerces-c\\+\\+ 2.8.0

Vendor Advisories

Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: CVE-2009-1885: DoS vulnerability (by simply nested DTD structures)
Debian Bug report logs - #540297 CVE-2009-1885: DoS vulnerability (by simply nested DTD structures) Package: xerces-c; Maintainer for xerces-c is William Blough <bblough@debianorg>; Reported by: Daniel Leidert <danielleidert@wgddde> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:51:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security Fix ...

References

CWE-119http://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/080509-xml-flaw.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515515http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=781488http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/c/trunk/src/xercesc/validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp?r1=781488&r2=781487&pathrev=781488&view=patchhttp://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.htmlhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2196http://secunia.com/advisories/36201http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35986https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01001.htmlhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01150.htmlhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01136.htmlhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01099.htmlhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:223https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52321https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=540297https://nvd.nist.gov
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