CVE-2013-0338

EPSS 0.67%

libxml2 - external entity expansion

Published: 4/25/2013Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0338

Description

libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka "internal entity expansion" with linear complexity.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1
Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze7

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-0338