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p5-HTML-Parser -- denial of service

Affected packages
		p5-HTML-Parser	<	3.63

Details

VuXML ID	68bda678-caab-11de-a97e-be89dfd1042e
Discovery	2009-10-23
Entry	2009-11-06

CVE reports:

The decode_entities function in util.c in HTML-Parser before 3.63 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an incomplete SGML numeric character reference, which triggers generation of an invalid UTF-8 character.

[source]

References

Bugtraq ID	36807
CVE Name	CVE-2009-3627
URL	http://secunia.com/advisories/37155