CVE-2009-2414 Information

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in libxml2 2.5.10 2.6.16 2.6.26 2.6.27 and 2.6.32 and libxml 1.8.17 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large depth of element declarations in a DTD related to a function recursion as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Reference

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/08/stable-update-security-fixes.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-09/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/35036 http://secunia.com/advisories/36207 http://secunia.com/advisories/36338 http://secunia.com/advisories/36417 http://secunia.com/advisories/36631 http://secunia.com/advisories/37346 http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3949 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225 http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html http://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/ http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1859 http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg678527.html http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/080509-xml-flaw.html http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2009-2414-2416.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36010 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-815-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2420 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3217 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515195 https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=489f9671e71cc44a97b23111b3126ac8a1e21a59 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10129 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A8639 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00537.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00547.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00642.html