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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2009-1885

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2009-1885

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/11/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in "simply nested DTD structures," as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libxerces-c-27
  • suse-upgrade-libxerces-c-28
  • suse-upgrade-libxerces-c-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libxerces-c28
  • suse-upgrade-xerces-c
  • suse-upgrade-xerces-c-devel

References

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