CVE-2008-4409
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 8.5%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDOct 3
1st PoCOct 2
exploitation probability
8.5%top 5% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
libxml2 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 does not properly handle "predefined entities definitions" in entities, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash), as demonstrated by use of xmllint on a certain XML document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-1564 and CVE-2008-3281.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/32454⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554660http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.htmlhttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.htmlhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/4http://secunia.com/advisories/32130http://secunia.com/advisories/32175http://secunia.com/advisories/32974http://secunia.com/advisories/35379http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xmlhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45633http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639