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Status published
Medium
CVE-2013-0338
libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a...
Vulnerability Description
libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka "internal entity expansion" with linear complexity.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52662
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00114.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00002.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912400
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00112.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142798889927587&w=2
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2652
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142798889927587&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55568
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=23f05e0c33987d6605387b300c4be5da2120a7ab
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1782-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:056
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Affected Vendor
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libxml2, ubuntu linux, opensuse
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.8.9, 1.8.10, 1.8.13, 1.8.14, 1.8.16, 2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.2.7, 2.2.8, 2.2.9, 2.2.10, 2.2.11, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.6, 2.3.7, 2.3.8, 2.3.9, 2.3.10, 2.3.11, 2.3.12, 2.3.13, 2.3.14, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.4.5, 2.4.6, 2.4.7, 2.4.8, 2.4.9, 2.4.10, 2.4.11, 2.4.12, 2.4.13, 2.4.14, 2.4.15, 2.4.16, 2.4.17, 2.4.18, 2.4.19, 2.4.20, 2.4.21, 2.4.22, 2.4.23, 2.4.24, 2.4.25, 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, 2.4.29, 2.4.30, 2.5.0, 2.5.4, 2.5.7, 2.5.8, 2.5.10, 2.5.11, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.9, 2.6.11, 2.6.12, 2.6.13, 2.6.14, 2.6.16, 2.6.17, 2.6.18, 2.6.20, 2.6.21, 2.6.22, 2.6.23, 2.6.24, 2.6.25, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, 2.6.28, 2.6.29, 2.6.30, 2.6.31, 2.6.32, 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5, 2.7.6, 2.7.7, 2.7.8, 2.9.0, 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Timeline
Official Publish:
April 25th, 2013
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.