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CVE-2009-3627

Publication date 29 October 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libhtml-parser-perl 9.10 karmic
Fixed 3.61-1ubuntu0.1
9.04 jaunty
Fixed 3.59-1ubuntu1.1
8.10 intrepid
Fixed 3.56-1ubuntu2.1
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 3.56-1ubuntu0.1
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 3.48-1ubuntu0.1

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libhtml-parser-perl

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-855-1
    • libhtml-parser-perl vulnerability
    • 5 November 2009

Other references