Out-of-Bounds Affecting xerces-c package, versions [2.7.0,2.8.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XERCESC-2384845
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Aug 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Aug 2009

CVE-2009-1885  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for xerces-c.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

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