CVE-2009-3560 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Project Libexpat
CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer15 documents9 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
3.0%
top 13.40%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 4
Latest updateMay 2
Description
The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720.
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9
Affected Packages7 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
10💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2009-3560 expat: buffer over-read and crash in big2_toUtf8() on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences↗2009-11-05