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CVE-2009-1885

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2009-08-11 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in "simply nested DTD structures," as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Affected Platforms

Apache Xerces-C\+\+

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References