FKIE_CVE-2009-1885
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-08-11 18:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:08
Severity
Summary
Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in "simply nested DTD structures," as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | xerces-c\+\+ | 2.7.0 | |
| apache | xerces-c\+\+ | 2.8.0 |
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