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libxml -- Stack consumption vulnerability

Affected packages
libxml < 1.8.17_5

Details

VuXML ID 5a7d4110-0b7a-11e1-846b-00235409fd3e
Discovery 2009-08-03
Entry 2011-11-10
Modified 2011-11-12

Stack consumption vulnerability allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large depth of element declarations in a DTD.

References

CVE Name CVE-2009-2414

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