CVE-2009-2473 (GCVE-0-2009-2473)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-08-21 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:52
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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