CVE-2009-2473

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2009-2473 at MITRE

Description

neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Novell/SUSE information

Novell Bugzilla entry: 528370, 532345

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2009:018, published Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE 10.3	`neon >= 0.26.4-17.2` `neon-32bit >= 0.26.4-17.2` `neon-64bit >= 0.26.4-17.2` `neon-devel >= 0.26.4-17.2`
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3 for x86	`neon >= 0.24.7-20.8.1` `neon-devel >= 0.24.7-20.8.1`	sles10-sp3.ppc sle10-sp3-sdk.ppc sles10-sp3.x86 sles10-sp3.s390x sle10-sp3-sdk.x86-64 sle10-sp3-sdk.s390x sles10-sp3.x86-64 sles10-sp3.ia64 sle10-sp3-sdk.x86 sle10-sp3-sdk.ia64 ZYPP Patch Nr: 6549
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T	`neon >= 0.24.7-20.8.1` `neon-32bit >= 0.24.7-20.8.1` `neon-devel >= 0.24.7-20.8.1`	sles10-sp3.ppc sle10-sp3-sdk.ppc sles10-sp3.x86 sles10-sp3.s390x sle10-sp3-sdk.x86-64 sle10-sp3-sdk.s390x sles10-sp3.x86-64 sles10-sp3.ia64 sle10-sp3-sdk.x86 sle10-sp3-sdk.ia64 ZYPP Patch Nr: 6549
SLES SDK 9 for IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries SLES SDK 9 for IBM iSeries and IBM pSeries SLES SDK 9 for IBM zSeries SLES SDK 9 for IPF SLES SDK 9 for X86-64 SLES SDK 9 for x86	`neon >= 0.24.7-6.7` `neon-devel >= 0.24.7-6.7`	core9.s390 core9.x86-64 core9.x86 core9.ia64 core9.ppc core9.s390x YOU Patch Nr: 12522
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2 for x86	`neon >= 0.24.7-20.8.1` `neon-devel >= 0.24.7-20.8.1`	sles10-sp2.x86 sle10-sp2-sdk.ppc sles10-sp2.ppc sle10-sp2-sdk.s390x sles10-sp2.x86-64 sle10-sp2-sdk.x86-64 sled10-sp2.x86 sle10-sp2-sdk.x86 sled10-sp2.x86-64 sles10-sp2.ia64 sle10-sp2-sdk.ia64 sles10-sp2.s390x ZYPP Patch Nr: 6548
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T	`neon >= 0.24.7-20.8.1` `neon-32bit >= 0.24.7-20.8.1` `neon-devel >= 0.24.7-20.8.1`	sles10-sp2.x86 sle10-sp2-sdk.ppc sles10-sp2.ppc sle10-sp2-sdk.s390x sles10-sp2.x86-64 sle10-sp2-sdk.x86-64 sled10-sp2.x86 sle10-sp2-sdk.x86 sled10-sp2.x86-64 sles10-sp2.ia64 sle10-sp2-sdk.ia64 sles10-sp2.s390x ZYPP Patch Nr: 6548
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for x86	`neon >= 0.24.7-20.8.1`	sles10-sp2.x86 sle10-sp2-sdk.ppc sles10-sp2.ppc sle10-sp2-sdk.s390x sles10-sp2.x86-64 sle10-sp2-sdk.x86-64 sled10-sp2.x86 sle10-sp2-sdk.x86 sled10-sp2.x86-64 sles10-sp2.ia64 sle10-sp2-sdk.ia64 sles10-sp2.s390x ZYPP Patch Nr: 6548
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for IPF	`neon >= 0.24.7-20.8.1` `neon-x86 >= 0.24.7-20.8.1`	sles10-sp2.x86 sle10-sp2-sdk.ppc sles10-sp2.ppc sle10-sp2-sdk.s390x sles10-sp2.x86-64 sle10-sp2-sdk.x86-64 sled10-sp2.x86 sle10-sp2-sdk.x86 sled10-sp2.x86-64 sles10-sp2.ia64 sle10-sp2-sdk.ia64 sles10-sp2.s390x ZYPP Patch Nr: 6548
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for IBM POWER	`neon >= 0.24.7-20.8.1` `neon-64bit >= 0.24.7-20.8.1`	sles10-sp2.x86 sle10-sp2-sdk.ppc sles10-sp2.ppc sle10-sp2-sdk.s390x sles10-sp2.x86-64 sle10-sp2-sdk.x86-64 sled10-sp2.x86 sle10-sp2-sdk.x86 sled10-sp2.x86-64 sles10-sp2.ia64 sle10-sp2-sdk.ia64 sles10-sp2.s390x ZYPP Patch Nr: 6548
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for IBM zSeries 64bit	`neon >= 0.24.7-20.8.1` `neon-32bit >= 0.24.7-20.8.1`	sles10-sp2.x86 sle10-sp2-sdk.ppc sles10-sp2.ppc sle10-sp2-sdk.s390x sles10-sp2.x86-64 sle10-sp2-sdk.x86-64 sled10-sp2.x86 sle10-sp2-sdk.x86 sled10-sp2.x86-64 sles10-sp2.ia64 sle10-sp2-sdk.ia64 sles10-sp2.s390x ZYPP Patch Nr: 6548

List of products where fixes are in QA

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3 for x86

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