neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2009-08-21T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:52:14.763Z

Reserved: 2009-07-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-2473

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-08-21T17:30:00.327

Modified: 2017-09-19T01:29:08.030

Link: CVE-2009-2473

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2009-08-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-2473 - Bugzilla