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CVE-2009-3560

expat: buffer over-read and crash in big2_toUtf8() on XML with malformed UTF-8 sequences

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 2.0

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Published · December 2, 2009

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified