CVE-2009-3560

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-12-02
IAVA:
2012-A-0020
Bugzilla:
533174: CVE-2009-3560 expat: buffer over-read and crash in big2_toUtf8() on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720.

Find out more about CVE-2009-3560 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 RHSA-2017:3239 2017-11-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (expat) RHSA-2009:1625 2009-12-07
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 1.0 RHSA-2011:0896 2011-06-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (expat) RHSA-2009:1625 2009-12-07
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (expat) RHSA-2009:1625 2009-12-07

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 expat Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 expat Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 compat-expat1 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xmlrpc-c Will not fix

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