CVE-2013-2156

NameCVE-2013-2156
DescriptionHeap-based buffer overflow in the Exclusive Canonicalization functionality (xsec/canon/XSECC14n20010315.cpp) in Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ (aka xml-security-c) before 1.7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PrefixList attribute.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-2710-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
xml-security-c (PTS)bullseye2.0.2-4fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm2.0.4-2fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
xml-security-csourcesqueeze1.5.1-3+squeeze2DSA-2710-1
xml-security-csourcewheezy1.6.1-5+deb7u1DSA-2710-1
xml-security-csource(unstable)1.6.1-6
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