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Tracker / CVE-2009-3720

CVE-2009-3720

Medium 5.0

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.

Affected products and versions

apache http_server · 2.0.35 → 2.0.64
apache http_server · 2.2.0 → 2.2.17
libexpat_project libexpat

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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