CVE-2009-2473

CVE-2009-2473 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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