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CVE-2009-3627

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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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published10/29/2009

Last Modified4/23/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

derrick_oswald:html-parser

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

References

http://github.com/gisle/html-parser/commit/b9aae1e43eb2c8e989510187cff0ba3e996f9a4c(secalert@redhat.com)

http://secunia.com/advisories/37155(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/9(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36807(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530604(secalert@redhat.com)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53941(secalert@redhat.com)

https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225(secalert@redhat.com)

http://github.com/gisle/html-parser/commit/b9aae1e43eb2c8e989510187cff0ba3e996f9a4c(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/37155(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/9(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36807(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530604(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53941(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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