CVE-2008-4409

Name	CVE-2008-4409
Description	libxml2 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 does not properly handle "predefined entities definitions" in entities, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash), as demonstrated by use of xmllint on a certain XML document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-1564 and CVE-2008-3281.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

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
libxml2	source	etch	(not affected)
libxml2	source	lenny	(not affected)
libxml2	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

Notes

[lenny] - libxml2 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[etch] - libxml2 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
The bug affects only to 2.7.0 and 2.7.1