Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting xerces-c-doc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.32% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-XERCESCDOC-12302512
  • published1 Sept 2025
  • disclosed5 Aug 2009

Introduced: 5 Aug 2009

CVE-2009-1885  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 xerces-c-doc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xerces-c-doc package and not the xerces-c-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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