Vulnerability Details CVE-2009-3627
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.007
EPSS Ranking 71.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- http://github.com/gisle/html-parser/commit/b9aae1e43eb2c8e989510187cff0ba3e996f9a4c
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37155
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36807
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530604
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53941
- https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225
- http://github.com/gisle/html-parser/commit/b9aae1e43eb2c8e989510187cff0ba3e996f9a4c
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37155
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36807
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530604
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53941
- https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225
Products affected by CVE-2009-3627
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cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:*
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cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.00
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cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.41
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cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.42
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cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:derrick_oswald:html-parser:1.6