CVE-2008-3529
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 23.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 23.4% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-3515)
- Published
- September 12, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-3515 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / iphone os
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x
- apple / safari
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- xmlsoft / libxml2
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Apple Mac OS X v10.3.6 and Apple Mac OS X Server V10.3.6 - Apple Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-0086-2005 - archived
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00000.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html(Broken Link, Mailing List)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31558(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31855(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31860(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31868(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31982(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32265(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32280(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32807(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32974(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33715(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33722(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35056(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35074(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35379(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36173(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36235(Third Party Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-06.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020855(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-126356-03-1(Broken Link)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-141243-01-1(Broken Link)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-247346-1(Broken Link)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-261688-1(Broken Link)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-265329-1(Broken Link)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3550(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-400.htm(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-025.htm(Third Party Advisory)
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0325(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1654(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:192(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0884.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0886.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31126(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-815-1(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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