Security Advisory

CVE-2009-3560

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-12-04 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 06:31:10
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.