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CVE-2009-2416

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: August 11, 2009 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:09 PM UTC
19 products affected across 11 vendorsmacOSDebian LinuxChrome

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted (1) Notation or (2) Enumeration attribute types in an XML file, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

iPhone OS· Apple
95%
2.0 ≤ v < 4.0
Affected range stops below 4.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Mac OS X Server· Apple
95%
v < 10.4.1110.5.0 ≤ v < 10.5.810.6.0 ≤ v < 10.6.2
Affected range stops below 10.4.11, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 10.5.8, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 10.6.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
macOS· Apple
95%
v < 10.4.1110.5.0 ≤ v < 10.5.810.6.0 ≤ v < 10.6.2
Affected range stops below 10.4.11, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 10.5.8, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 10.6.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Safari· Apple
95%
v < 4.0.4
Affected range stops below 4.0.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%
6.068.048.109.04
Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%
4.0
Fedora· Fedora Projectrpm
95%
1011
Chrome· Googlenpm
95%
v < 2.0.172.43
Affected range stops below 2.0.172.43, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
openSUSE· openSUSE
95%
10.3 ≤ v ≤ 11.1
Enterprise Linux· Red Hatrpm
95%
3.04.05.0

References (36)

x_refsource_CONFIRMRelease Notes
Source: [email protected]
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/08/stable-update-security-fixes.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing List
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing List
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00001.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing List
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00003.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing List
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-09/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/35036
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/36207
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/36338

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

6.5MEDIUMCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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