CVE-2008-3281
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3281
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2008-3281.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2008-3281
- Downstream
- Published
- 2008-08-27T20:41:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:29Z
- Severity
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- 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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.
- References
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- http://secunia.com/advisories/31558
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31566
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31590
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31728
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31748
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31855
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31982
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32488
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32807
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32974
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35379
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1631
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:180
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:192
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497962/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30783
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020728
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-640-1
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0017.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2419
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2843
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2971
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621
- http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0836.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-August/msg00034.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00261.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00347.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458086
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000039.html
- http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2?view=revision&revision=3772
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0325
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6496
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9812
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/644-1/