CVE-2008-3281 (GCVE-0-2008-3281)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-08-27 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:28
VLAI?
Summary
libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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