Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4482

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-10-08 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:17:09
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The XML parser in Xerces-C++ before 3.0.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via an XML schema definition with a large maxOccurs value, which triggers excessive memory consumption during validation of an XML file.