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

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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

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Package	Patch details
libhtml-parser-perl	Upstream: b9aae1e

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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

Other references

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3627