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Medium severity · published Aug 27, 2008
CVE-2008-3281
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…
6.5
CVSS
2.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.5% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IO
iOS · Apple
1.0.0 before 3.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
4.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
3.0; 4.0; 5.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Eus · Redhat
4.7; 5.2 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
2.0; 3.0; 4.0; 5.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
2.0; 3.0; 4.0; 5.0 · source: NVD
ES
Esx · Vmware
2.5.4; 2.5.5; 3.0.2; 3.0.3 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
9 · source: NVD
LI
Libxml2 · Xmlsoft
through 2.6.32 · source: NVD
SA
Safari · Apple
before 4.0 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
6.06; 7.04; 7.10; 8.04 · source: NVD
Affected product
IO
iOS
Apple
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3281
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3281
Mailing List
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
Broken Link
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
Broken Link
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000039.html
Mailing List
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/31558
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