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Vulnerability Analysis Result (Revision No : 1) [ Download XML
VRDA-090909-002     ( CVE-2009-2414 | CVE-2009-2416 )
Security Vulnerabilities in libxml2 Library Related to Parsing of Element Declarations, Notation and Enumeration Attribute Types may Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS)
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Security Vulnerabilities in libxml2 Library Related to Parsing of Element Declarations, Notation and Enumeration Attribute Types may Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS)




About This Analysis Information
Analysis Information Provider:
JPCERT/CC
First Published:
2009-09-09
Source Information Category:
Advisory, Alert
Last Updated:
2009-09-09




Affected Product Tags
cpe:/o:sun:solaris:10     (Sun Solaris 10)
cpe:/o:sun:solaris:9     (Sun Solaris 9)
lapt:/o:sun:opensolaris     ( Sun OpenSolaris)
 


Vulnerability Analysis Results
[Information Source Reliability] [?]
Low [?]

Medium [?]
X High [?]

[Impact Level] [?]
Low [?]

X Low-Medium [?]
Medium-High [?]
High [?]

[Access Required] [?]
Physical [?]

Local [?]
Non-routed [?]
X Routed [?]

[Authentication] [?]
Privileged [?]

Standard [?]
Limited [?]
X None or Unnecessary [?]

[User Interaction Required] [?]
Complex [?]

X Simple [?]
None [?]

[Technical Difficulty] [?]
High [?]

Medium-High [?]
Low-Medium [?]
Low [?]

[Availability of Remediation] [?]
X Official Patch [?]

Official Workaround [?]
Unofficial Patch [?]
None [?]

[Incident Activity] [?]
X None [?]

Exploit or PoC [?]
Activity Observed [?]

Alternatives
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) CVE-2009-2414
Stack consumption vulnerability in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26,2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allows context-dependentattackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a largedepth of element declarations in a DTD, related to a functionrecursion, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.




Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) CVE-2009-2416
Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16,2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allow context-dependentattackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted(1) Notation or (2) Enumeration attribute types in an XML file, asdemonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.








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