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CVE-2009-2414

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

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large depth of element declarations in a DTD, related to a function recursion, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Affected Platforms

Xmlsoft LibxmlXmlsoft Libxml2

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References