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CVE-2009-2473
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 4.3/10
- Exploit Score
- 8.6/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Medium
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 2.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- None
Products Affected
| CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:webdav:neon:0.28.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36371
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00945.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00924.html
- http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001045.html
- http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001044.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2341
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:221
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0131.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52633
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9