CVE-2009-1885
Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors
02 Description
Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.32% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 92.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-08-11 18:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 05:27Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-06-02
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e22d93388ffb2bf93e255a9a949cc95628696c37f98ac0d7b6d3319a533b04b0
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com35986http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35986
- www.networkworld.comhttp://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/080509-xml-flaw.html
- www.cert.fihttp://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html
- www.codenomicon.comhttp://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-8345https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01136.html
- secunia.com36201http://secunia.com/advisories/36201
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-2196http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2196
- svn.apache.orghttp://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/c/trunk/src/xercesc/validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp?r1=781488&r2=781487&pathrev=781488&view=patch
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-8305https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01001.html
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2009:223http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:223
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comxerces-c-dtd-dos(52321)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52321
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-8350https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01099.html
- svn.apache.orghttp://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=781488
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515515
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-8332https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg01150.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- xerces-c Fixed in 3.0.1-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- xerces-c Fixed in 3.0.1-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- xerces-c Fixed in 3.0.1-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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