Security Advisory

CVE-2009-3720

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-11-03 16:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 06:38:30

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The updatePosition function in lib/xmltok_impl.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in Python, PyXML, w3c-libwww, and other software, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with crafted UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625.

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