CVE-2008-3281 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-3281 at MITRE

Description

libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.5
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 415371 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 422636 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:018, published Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:11:44 2013
CVE page last modified: Wed Sep 18 11:10:55 2024