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CVE-2009-3627
Published: Oct 29, 2009
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The decode_entities function in util.c in HTML-Parser before 3.63 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an incomplete SGML numeric character reference, which triggers generation of an invalid UTF-8 character.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
ADV-2009-3022
vdb-entry
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[oss-security] 20091023 CVE-2009-3627 assignment notification - HTML-Parser-3.63
mailing-list
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htmlparser-decodeentities-dos(53941)
vdb-entry
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530604
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36807
vdb-entry
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37155
third-party-advisory
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https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225
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