| Name | CVE-2008-3281 |
| Description | libxml2 2.6.32 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion in an attribute value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1631-1, DTSA-158-1 |
| NVD severity | medium (attack range: remote) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| chromium-browser (PTS) | jessie, jessie (security) | 57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch | 63.0.3239.84-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| stretch (security) | 68.0.3440.75-1~deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster, sid | 68.0.3440.75-2 | fixed | |
| libxml2 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (security) | 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u6 | fixed |
| stretch, stretch (security) | 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2+deb9u2 | fixed | |
| buster, sid | 2.9.4+dfsg1-7 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| chromium-browser | source | (unstable) | 5.0.375.29~r46008-1 | medium | ||
| libxml2 | source | (unstable) | 2.6.32.dfsg-3 | medium | ||
| libxml2 | source | etch | 2.6.27.dfsg-3 | medium | DSA-1631-1 | |
| libxml2 | source | lenny | 2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny1 | medium | DTSA-158-1 |