CVE-2008-5185

The highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an XML sequence containing an opening delimiter without a closing delimiter, as demonstrated using "<".

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2008-11-21

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Geshi (Geshi)

References

• http://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/geshi.php?r1=1321&r2=1322&view=patch
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32377
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46769