CVE-2009-3560

libexpat - Denial of Service via Malformed UTF-8 Sequence Buffer Over-read

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720.

References (58)

Core 58
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_slackware
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.486026
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00370.html
Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/38832
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023278
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-890-1
Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/38794
Broken Link vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1107
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1953
Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/41701
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37203
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-890-6
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00413.html
Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/38231
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533174
Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/38834
Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/39478
Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/37537
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00007.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00394.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/43300
Broken Link vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0896.html
Broken Link vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0896
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_sunalert
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-273630-1
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_hp
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130168502603566&w=2
Broken Link vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0359
Broken Link vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:316
Broken Link vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528

Scores

EPSS 0.2431
EPSS Percentile 97.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (2)
apache/http_server 2.0.35 - 2.0.64
libexpat_project/libexpat 2.0.1
Published Dec 04, 2009
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026