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CVE-2009-3627

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2009-10-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Derrick Oswald Html-Parser

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References