CVE-2008-5185

Description

The highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an XML sequence containing an opening delimiter without a closing delimiter, as demonstrated using "<".

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46769

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32377

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/4

http://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/geshi.php?r1=1321&r2=1322&view=patch

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS