CVE-2009-2414: xmlsoft libxml

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2009-2414 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in xmlsoft libxml. EPSS estimates a 3.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 11-08-2009
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large depth of element declarations in a DTD, related to a function recursion, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.