CPANSA-HTML-Parser-2009-3627: HTML-Parser vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2009-10-29T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2009-10-29T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability 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.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-3627

Vulnerability 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.

Weakness CWE-20 : Improper Input Validation

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
HTML-Parser less than 3.63
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P 4.3 Medium
Fixed

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 2009 First release

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