CVE-2009-3560

The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a…

published December 4, 2009

CVSS
—
EPSS
24%
Percentile
97.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.24313 · 97.9th percentile
Published
2009-12-04T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 DEC 21:00Z
    The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a…
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