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hsec-2023-0004
Vulnerability from osv_haskell
Published
2025-11-14 14:45
Modified
2025-11-14 14:45
Summary
xml-conduit unbounded entity expansion
Details
xml-conduit unbounded entity expansion
A vulnerability was found in xml-conduit. It has been classified
as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file
xml-conduit/src/Text/XML/Stream/Parse.hs of the component DOCTYPE
Entity Expansion Handler. The manipulation leads to infinite loop.
It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Upgrading to version
1.9.1.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is
4be1021791dcdee8b164d239433a2043dc0939ea. It is recommended to
upgrade the affected component.
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CVE-2021-4249 (GCVE-0-2021-4249)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-18 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-15 13:00
VLAI?
EPSS
Title
xml-conduit DOCTYPE Entity Expansion Parse.hs infinite loop
Summary
A vulnerability was found in xml-conduit. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file xml-conduit/src/Text/XML/Stream/Parse.hs of the component DOCTYPE Entity Expansion Handler. The manipulation leads to infinite loop. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Upgrading to version 1.9.1.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 4be1021791dcdee8b164d239433a2043dc0939ea. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216204.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-404 - Denial of Service -> CWE-835 Infinite Loop
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unspecified | xml-conduit |
Affected:
0.5.0
Affected: 0.5.0.1 Affected: 0.5.1 Affected: 0.5.1.1 Affected: 0.5.1.2 Affected: 0.5.2 Affected: 0.5.3 Affected: 0.5.3.1 Affected: 0.5.4 Affected: 0.6.0 Affected: 0.6.1 Affected: 0.7.0 Affected: 0.7.0.1 Affected: 0.7.0.2 Affected: 0.7.0.3 Affected: 1.0.0 Affected: 1.0.1 Affected: 1.0.1.1 Affected: 1.0.2 Affected: 1.0.2.1 Affected: 1.0.3 Affected: 1.0.3.1 Affected: 1.0.3.2 Affected: 1.0.3.3 Affected: 1.1.0 Affected: 1.1.0.1 Affected: 1.1.0.2 Affected: 1.1.0.3 Affected: 1.1.0.4 Affected: 1.1.0.5 Affected: 1.1.0.6 Affected: 1.1.0.7 Affected: 1.1.0.8 Affected: 1.1.0.9 Affected: 1.2.0 Affected: 1.2.0.1 Affected: 1.2.0.2 Affected: 1.2.0.3 Affected: 1.2.1 Affected: 1.2.1.1 Affected: 1.2.2 Affected: 1.2.3 Affected: 1.2.3.1 Affected: 1.2.3.2 Affected: 1.2.3.3 Affected: 1.2.4 Affected: 1.2.5 Affected: 1.2.5.1 Affected: 1.2.6 Affected: 1.3.0 Affected: 1.3.1 Affected: 1.3.2 Affected: 1.3.3 Affected: 1.3.3.1 Affected: 1.3.4 Affected: 1.3.4.1 Affected: 1.3.4.2 Affected: 1.3.5 Affected: 1.4.0 Affected: 1.4.0.1 Affected: 1.4.0.2 Affected: 1.4.0.3 Affected: 1.4.0.4 Affected: 1.5.0 Affected: 1.5.1 Affected: 1.6.0 Affected: 1.7.0 Affected: 1.7.0.1 Affected: 1.7.1.0 Affected: 1.7.1.1 Affected: 1.7.1.2 Affected: 1.8.0 Affected: 1.8.0.1 Affected: 1.9.0.0 |
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