Expat UTF-8 Character XML Parsing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Publish Date: 21 juillet 2015
Gravité: : Medium
Identifiant(s) CVE: : CVE-2009-3720
Date du conseil: 21 juillet 2015
Description
The updatePosition function in lib/xmltok_impl.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in Python, PyXML, w3c-libwww, and other software, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with crafted UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625.
Information Exposure Rating:
Apply associated Trend Micro DPI Rules.
Solutions
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1003960
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Name: 1003960 - Expat UTF-8 Character XML Parsing Remote Denial Of Service
Affected software and version:
- james_clark expat 2.0.1