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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History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2008-08-27T20:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2008-3281

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2024-02-02T15:02:14.603

Link: CVE-2008-3281

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2008-3281 - Bugzilla