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CVE-2009-2414

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
11/08/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml:1.8.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.5.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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