libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document.

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1631-1 New libxml2 packages fix denial of service
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-640-1 libxml2 vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-644-1 libxml2 vulnerabilities
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References
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http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000039.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31558 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31566 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31590 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31728 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31748 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31855 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31982 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32488 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32807 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32974 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35379 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2?view=revision&revision=3772 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0325 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1631 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:180 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:192 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497962/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30783 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020728 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-640-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0017.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2419 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2843 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2971 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621 cve-icon cve-icon
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458086 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3281 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6496 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9812 cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0836.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/644-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3281 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00261.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00347.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:28:41.985Z

Reserved: 2008-07-24T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-3281

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-08-27T20:41:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-3281

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-08-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-3281 - Bugzilla

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