CVE-2013-0338

libxml2 < 2.9.0 - Denial of Service via Internal Entity Expansion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka "internal entity expansion" with linear complexity.

References (12)

Core 12
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/52662
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00114.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912400
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_hp
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142798889927587&w=2
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2652
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/55568
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1782-1
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:056

Scores

EPSS 0.0286
EPSS Percentile 85.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (49)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 8.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 10.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 11.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.10
opensuse/opensuse 12.1
opensuse/opensuse 12.2
opensuse/opensuse 12.3
xmlsoft/libxml2 1.7.0
xmlsoft/libxml2 1.7.1
... and 39 more
Published Apr 25, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026