Stack consumption vulnerability in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allows context-dependent…

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large depth of element declarations in a DTD, related to a function recursion, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (36)

• USN-815-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-8491 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 36631 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/080509-xml-flaw.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2009-2414-2416.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2009-11-11-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• ADV-2009-3217 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 37471 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• ADV-2009-2420 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-8580 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 36417 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2009:015 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3949 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [debian-bugs-dist] 20090810 Bug#540865: libxml2: CVE-2009-2414, CVE-2009-2416 pointer-user-after-free and stack overflow because of function recursion (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 36010 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/08/stable-update-security-fixes.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 20091120 VMSA-2009-0016 VMware vCenter and ESX update release and vMA patch release address multiple security issue in third party components (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=489f9671e71cc44a97b23111b3126ac8a1e21a59 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 35036 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 36338 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-8498 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8639 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10129 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515195 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• ADV-2009-3184 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• DSA-1859 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2009-11-09-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2010-06-21-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• 37346 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2009-3316 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 36207 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 05:52 UTC.