Vulnerability CVE-2009-3627
Published: 2009-10-29   Modified: 2012-02-13

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.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Derrick oswald -> Html-parser 

 References:
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36807
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/9
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530604
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53941
http://secunia.com/advisories/37155
http://github.com/gisle/html-parser/commit/b9aae1e43eb2c8e989510187cff0ba3e996f9a4c
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