CVE-2008-5185

Medium

Description

The highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an XML sequence containing an opening delimiter without a closing delimiter, as demonstrated using "<".

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductGeshi
PublishedNov 21, 2008
First seenNov 21, 2008

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
geshi geshiv ≤ 1.0.7.22, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.2_beta_1, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.7.1, 1.0.7.2, 1.0.7.3, 1.0.7.4, 1.0.7.5, 1.0.7.6, 1.0.7.7, 1.0.7.8, 1.0.7.9, 1.0.7.10, 1.0.7.11, 1.0.7.12, 1.0.7.13, 1.0.7.14, 1.0.7.15, 1.0.7.16, 1.0.7.17, 1.0.7.18, 1.0.7.19, 1.0.7.20, 1.0.7.21—

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