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CVE-2009-3720

medium · 5

The updatePosition function in lib/xmltok_impl.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in Python, PyXML, w3c-libwww, and other software, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with crafted UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625.

5
CVSS
27.9%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
98th
EPSS percentile
2009-11-03
Published

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
libexpat_projectlibexpat2.0.1
pythonpythonall versions
pythonpyxmlall versions
apachehttp_server>= 2.0.35, < 2.0.64
apachehttp_server>= 2.2.0, < 2.2.17

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