CVE-2008-4409 (GCVE-0-2008-4409)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-10-03 17:18 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:17
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
libxml2 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 does not properly handle "predefined entities definitions" in entities, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash), as demonstrated by use of xmllint on a certain XML document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-1564 and CVE-2008-3281.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
18 references
Date Public
2008-10-02 00:00
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"redhat_vex": {
"current_release_date": "2025-11-21T13:14:43+00:00",
"cve": "CVE-2008-4409",
"id": "CVE-2008-4409",
"initial_release_date": "2008-10-02T00:00:00+00:00",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
"source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
"status": "final",
"title": "libxml2: infinite loop when entity is used in entity definition",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2008/cve-2008-4409.json",
"version": "3"
}
}
}
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Nomenclature
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
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They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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