CVE-2013-0338

Published Apr 25, 2013

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description
libxml2 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.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

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Hype score
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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-119

Evaluator

Comment
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Impact
Per http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1782-1/ "A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.10 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 11.10 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04 LTS" Per http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html"
Solution
Per http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1782-1/ "A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.10 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 11.10 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04 LTS" Per http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html"

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