CVE-2009-1885 (GCVE-0-2009-1885)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-08-11 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:27
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Summary
Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in "simply nested DTD structures," as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2009-08-05 00:00
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