CVE-2009-2473

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductWebdav Neon
PublishedAug 21, 2009
First seenAug 21, 2009

How to fix

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
webdav neon0.28.6—

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