CVE-2008-3529

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 23%

exploitation probability

23%top 2% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseAttValueComplex function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.7.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long XML entity name.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

cve_reference✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/8798

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References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461015 http://secunia.com/advisories/31558 http://secunia.com/advisories/31855 http://secunia.com/advisories/31860 http://secunia.com/advisories/31868 http://secunia.com/advisories/31982 http://secunia.com/advisories/32265 http://secunia.com/advisories/32280