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CVE-2009-3560

Published: December 4, 2009Last modified: November 2, 2023

Description

The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720.

Status

ProductReleasePackageStatus
Alpaquita Linux23 LTSexpatNot affected (2.5.0-r0)
StreamexpatNot affected (2.5.0-r2)

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