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CVE-2008-3281

Date: August 27, 2008

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 Score

6.5

Related Resources (45)

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2419

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497962/100/0/threaded

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-3281

Url: http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

Url: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0325

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31566

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32974

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31982

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3281

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31728

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30783

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:192

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9812

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31748

Url: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0017.html

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458086

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html

Url: http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000039.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31590

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00261.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-640-1

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2843

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31855

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31558

Url: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2?view=revision&revision=3772

Url: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00347.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32488

Url: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0836.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35379

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6496

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32807

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1631

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020728

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:180

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2971

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/644-1/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-3281

Severity Score

6.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

CWE-776

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2008-3281

Date: August 27, 2008

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