Html Parser · Html-Parser · CVE-2009-3627
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
HTML-Parser versions prior to 3.63
**Description**
The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an infinite loop, by providing an incomplete SGML numeric character reference. This triggers the generation of an invalid UTF-8 character through the decode entities function in util.c.
**Recommendations**
For versions prior to 3.63, update to version 3.63 or later to resolve the issue.