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CVE-2009-3627

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
29/10/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The decode_entities function in util.c in HTML-Parser before 3.63 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an incomplete SGML numeric character reference, which triggers generation of an invalid UTF-8 character.

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:derrick_oswald:html-parser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.54 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.41:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.42:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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