CVE-2008-3281

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, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-1631-1, DTSA-158-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
libxml2 (PTS)	bullseye	2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u4	fixed
	bullseye (security)	2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u5	fixed
	bookworm	2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-0.2	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
libxml2	source	etch	2.6.27.dfsg-3		DSA-1631-1
libxml2	source	lenny	2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny1		DTSA-158-1
libxml2	source	(unstable)	2.6.32.dfsg-3	medium