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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-4482: Xerces-C++: Denial of service

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-4482: Xerces-C++: Denial of service

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/07/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
05/28/2021

Description

The XML parser in Xerces-C++ before 3.0.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via an XML schema definition with a large maxOccurs value, which triggers excessive memory consumption during validation of an XML file.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-xerces-c

References

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