Published: 29/10/2009 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

The decode_entities function in util.c in HTML-Parser prior to 3.63 allows context-dependent malicious users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an incomplete SGML numeric character reference, which triggers generation of an invalid UTF-8 character.

Vulnerable Product	Search on Vulmon	Subscribe to Product
derrick oswald html-parser 1.2
derrick oswald html-parser 1.3
derrick oswald html-parser 1.00
derrick oswald html-parser 1.1
derrick oswald html-parser 1.6
derrick oswald html-parser
derrick oswald html-parser 1.42
derrick oswald html-parser 1.5
derrick oswald html-parser 1.4
derrick oswald html-parser 1.41

Debian Bug report logs - #552531 libhtml-parser-perl: decode_entities confused by trailing incomplete entity can lead to DoS attacks Package: libhtml-parser-perl; Maintainer for libhtml-parser-perl is Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for libhtml-parser-perl is src:libhtml-parser-perl (PTS, bui ...

Mark Martinec discovered that HTML::Parser incorrectly handled strings with incomplete entities An attacker could send specially crafted input to applications that use HTML::Parser and cause a denial of service ...

A denial of service vulnerability has been found in libhtml-parser-perl, a collection of modules to parse HTML in text documents which is used by several other projects like eg SpamAssassin Mark Martinec discovered that the decode_entities() function will get stuck in an infinite loop when parsing certain HTML entities with invalid UTF-8 charact ...

CWE-20 https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/9 http://secunia.com/advisories/37155 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36807 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530604 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022 http://github.com/gisle/html-parser/commit/b9aae1e43eb2c8e989510187cff0ba3e996f9a4c https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53941 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=552531 https://usn.ubuntu.com/855-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

CVE-2009-3627

Vulnerability Summary

Vendor Advisories

References

Vulmon Search

About

Products

Connect