CVE-2008-5185

NameCVE-2008-5185
DescriptionThe highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an XML sequence containing an opening delimiter without a closing delimiter, as demonstrated using "<".
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDTSA-179-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
geshi (PTS)buster1.0.8.11-3fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm, bullseye1.0.9.1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
geshisourcelenny1.0.7.22-1+lenny1DTSA-179-1
geshisource(unstable)1.0.8.1-1medium

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