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-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a
02 Description
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-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a
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
- 3.13% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.6% 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
- Moderate. 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 05:52Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-07-09
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 165ab1c617747759687af5bce7818618b1b1eade34d08dcb3b7055f1ec50967c
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-815-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-815-1
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-8491https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00537.html
- secunia.com36631http://secunia.com/advisories/36631
- www.networkworld.comhttp://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/080509-xml-flaw.html
- www.openoffice.orghttp://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2009-2414-2416.html
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2009-11-11-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00001.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-3217http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3217
- secunia.com37471http://secunia.com/advisories/37471
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-2420http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2420
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-8580https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00642.html
- www.vmware.comhttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html
- secunia.com36417http://secunia.com/advisories/36417
- www.cert.fihttp://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html
- www.codenomicon.comhttp://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2009:015http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-09/msg00001.html
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT3949
- www.mail-archive.com[debian-bugs-dist] 20090810 Bug#540865: libxml2: CVE-2009-2414, CVE-2009-2416 pointer-user-after-free and stack overflow because of function recursionhttp://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg678527.html
- www.securityfocus.com36010http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36010
- googlechromereleases.blogspot.comhttp://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/08/stable-update-security-fixes.html
- www.securityfocus.com20091120 VMSA-2009-0016 VMware vCenter and ESX update release and vMA patch release address multiple security issue in third party componentshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded
- git.gnome.orghttps://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=489f9671e71cc44a97b23111b3126ac8a1e21a59
- secunia.com35036http://secunia.com/advisories/35036
- secunia.com36338http://secunia.com/advisories/36338
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-8498https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00547.html
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:8639https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8639
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10129https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10129
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515195
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-3184http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184
- www.debian.orgDSA-1859http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1859
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2009-11-09-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2010-06-21-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00003.html
- secunia.com37346http://secunia.com/advisories/37346
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-3316http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937
- secunia.com36207http://secunia.com/advisories/36207
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- libxml2 Fixed in 2.7.3.dfsg-2.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- libxml2 Fixed in 2.7.3.dfsg-2.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- libxml2 Fixed in 2.7.3.dfsg-2.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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