CVE-2009-2473

neon: billion laughs DoS attack

Published Aug 21, 2009 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 8.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-2468 neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.08215}

epss

{'score': 0.09502}

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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 5:52 AM
Reserved
Jul 15, 2009, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 21, 2009, 5:30 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:09 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Aug 18, 2009, 12:00 AM