CVE-2013-0338

libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka "internal entity expansion" with linear complexity.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2013-04-25

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Opensuse (Opensuse)
• Libxml2 (Xmlsoft)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00114.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142798889927587&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52662
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55568
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2652
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:056
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1782-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912400
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=23f05e0c33987d6605387b300c4be5da2120a7ab