CVE-2009-2473 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001044.html http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001045.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0131.html http://secunia.com/advisories/36371 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:221 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2341 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52633 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9461 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00924.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00945.html