PT-2009-5900 · Html Parser · Html-Parser

Jan Iankko Lieskovsky · Published 2009-10-29 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2009-3627

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

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.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-3627

DSA-1923-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10369-1

Affected Products

Html-Parser

References · 14

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-3627 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37155 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3627 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/9 · Patch
• https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10369-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3627 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/36807 · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3627 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53941 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530604 · Note
• http://github.com/gisle/html-parser/commit/b9aae1e43eb2c8e989510187cff0ba3e996f9a4c · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-3627 · Note