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CVE-2013-0338

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
25/04/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka "internal entity expansion" with linear complexity.

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:libxml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.9.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:1.8.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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