NASLDB: Debian DSA-1923-1 : libhtml-parser-perl - denial of service
General
ID: 44788
Name: Debian DSA-1923-1 : libhtml-parser-perl – denial of service
Summary: Checks dpkg output for the updated package
Credits: –
Classification
Risk: –
CVSS: –
CVSS Base Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Temporal Vector: –
Port: 0
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Type: Local
Description
A denial of service vulnerability has been found in
libhtml-parser-perl, a collection of modules to parse HTML in text
documents which is used by several other projects like e.g.
SpamAssassin.
Mark Martinec discovered that the decode_entities() function will get
stuck in an infinite loop when parsing certain HTML entities with
invalid UTF-8 characters. An attacker can use this to perform denial
of service attacks by submitting crafted HTML to an application using
this functionality.
Exploiting
Exploit Available: –
Exploitability Ease: –
Sources
CVE: CVE-2009-3627
OSVDB: –
Bugtraq: –
scipID: –
Timeline
Vulnerability Disclosure: –
Patch Release: 2009/10/27
Plugin Release: 2010/02/24
Plugin
Version: 1.4
Filename: debian_DSA-1923.nasl
Filesize: 3326 bytes
MD5 Hash: 7ce4ad4aa94693fe8290b3f681f96e99
Identification: Host/local_checks_enabled
Require Keys: Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Dependencies: "ssh_get_info.nasl"
Copyright: This script is© 2010-2012 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
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