CVE-2009-2473
Published Aug 21, 2009
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.3
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-399
Vendor comments
- Red HatUpdated neon packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 were released via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1452.html Embedded copy of the neon library is included in the versions of gnome-vfs2 packages as shipped with Red Hat Enteprise Linux 4 and Red Hat Enteprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact on gnome-vfs2, future updates may address this flaw.
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:webdav:neon:0.28.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "632E9CF9-8652-4FCB-B387-467B137C8CC7"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]