Oval Definition:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6883
Revision Date:2014-01-20Version:6
Title:Expat Unspecified XML Parsing Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description:The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, related to the doProlog function in lib/xmlparse.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625 and CVE-2009-3720.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:ACCEPTEDReference(s):CVE-2009-3560
Platform(s):VMWare ESX Server 4.0
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Definition Synopsis
  • VMware ESX Server 4.0 is installed
  • AND Patch ESX400-201005403-SG is not installed
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