CVE-2009-3627 - Vulncode-DB

CVE-2009-3627 (NVD)

2009-10-29

The decode_entities function in util.c in HTML-Parser before 3.63 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an incomplete SGML numeric character reference, which triggers generation of an invalid UTF-8 character.

Products	Html\-Parser
Type	Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
First patch	http://github.com/gisle/html-parser/commit/b9aae1e43eb2c8e989510187cff0ba3e996f9a4c
Relevant file/s	• ./t/entities.t (modified, +3, -1) • ./util.c (modified, +6, -6)
Links	• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36807 • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530604 • https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53941 • http://secunia.com/advisories/37155 • https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225 More/Less (2) • http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/9 • http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022

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