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CVE-2008-4482

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2008-10-08 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The XML parser in Xerces-C++ before 3.0.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via an XML schema definition with a large maxOccurs value, which triggers excessive memory consumption during validation of an XML file.

Affected Platforms

Apache Xerces-C\+\+

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References