CVE-2008-3281

medium

Description

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0836.html

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0017.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-640-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1631

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00347.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00261.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458086

http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-08-27

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H