CVE-2008-3529
N/A
Published: September 12, 2008 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:55 PM UTC
6 products affected across 4 vendorsmacOSDebian LinuxiPhone OS
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 23%
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseAttValueComplex function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.7.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long XML entity name.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
v < 3.0
Affected range stops below 3.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 10.5.710.5.7
Affected range stops below 10.5.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 4.03.2.0 ≤ v < 3.2.3
Affected range stops below 3.2.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00000.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml
References (53)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00000.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEBroken LinkMailing List
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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