Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted (1) Notation or (2) Enumeration attribute types in an XML file, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1859-1 New libxml2 packages fix several issues
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1861-1 New libxml packages fix several issues
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-815-1 libxml2 vulnerabilities
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/08/stable-update-security-fixes.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-09/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35036 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36207 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36338 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36417 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36631 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37346 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3949 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1859 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg678527.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/080509-xml-flaw.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2009-2414-2416.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36010 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-815-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2420 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3217 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515205 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=489f9671e71cc44a97b23111b3126ac8a1e21a59 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2416 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7783 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9262 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2416 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00537.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00547.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00642.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-01-21T15:30:42.200Z

Reserved: 2009-07-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-2416

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:52:14.792Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-08-11T18:30:00.983

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

Link: CVE-2009-2416

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2009-08-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-2416 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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