CVE-2008-3281

libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document.

Link	Resource
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html	Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458086
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:180
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0836.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30783	Patch
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-640-1
http://secunia.com/advisories/31728
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2?view=revision&revision=3772
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00261.html
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31558
http://secunia.com/advisories/31748
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00347.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31590
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31855
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:192
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0017.html
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000039.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32488
http://secunia.com/advisories/31566
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020728
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1631
http://secunia.com/advisories/32807
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0325
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/32974
http://secunia.com/advisories/31982
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522
http://secunia.com/advisories/35379
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2843
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2971
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2419
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9812
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6496
https://usn.ubuntu.com/644-1/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497962/100/0/threaded

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.4.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.5.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.4.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.5.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Published : 2008-08-27 08:41

Updated : 2018-10-11 08:47

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NVD link : CVE-2008-3281

Mitre link : CVE-2008-3281

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CWE-776

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')