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CVE-2008-5185
published 2008-11-21

CVE-2008-5185: The highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an XML sequence…

PriorityP423medium5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCNINAP
EXPLOIT
EPSS
3.89%
88.9th percentile
The highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an XML sequence containing an opening delimiter without a closing delimiter, as demonstrated using "<".

Affected

36 ranges· showing 25
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiangeshi< geshi 1.0.8.1-1 (bookworm)geshi 1.0.8.1-1 (bookworm)
geshigeshi<= 1.0.7.22—
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CVSS provenance

nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv5.0MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.0MEDIUM
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