Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2009-2473 First vendor Publication 2009-08-21
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-09-19

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2473

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21012
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21012
Title: RHSA-2013:0131: gnome-vfs2 security and bug fix update (Low)
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.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2013:0131-00
CESA-2013:0131
CVE-2009-2473
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
 Product(s): gnome-vfs2
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23415
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23415
Title: ELSA-2013:0131: gnome-vfs2 security and bug fix update (Low)
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.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013:0131-00
CVE-2009-2473
 Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): gnome-vfs2
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27176
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27176
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2013-0131 -- gnome-vfs2 security and bug fix update (low)
Description: [2.16.2-10.el5] - Prevent trash applet crashing (#848822) [2.16.2-9.el5] - Prevent deleting items linking out of the trash (#586015) - Do not stat every file on an ClearCase mvfs filesystem (#822817) - Do not silently skip directory having no read permission during copy (#772307) - Allow trashing symlink to filesystem root that does not support trashing (#621394) - CVE-2009-2473 gnome-vfs2 embedded neon: billion laughs DoS attack (#540548)
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013-0131
CVE-2009-2473
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): gnome-vfs2
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9461
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9461
Title: 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.
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.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2009-2473
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2011-09-07 Name : Mac OS X v10.6.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (2010-007)
File : nvt/gb_macosx_su10-007.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for neon CESA-2009:1452 centos4 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_1452_neon_centos4_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for neon CESA-2009:1452 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_1452_neon_centos5_i386.nasl
2009-11-11 Name : SLES10: Security update for neon
File : nvt/sles10_neon.nasl
2009-11-11 Name : SLES11: Security update for libneon
File : nvt/sles11_libneon27.nasl
2009-11-11 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:018
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_018.nasl
2009-09-28 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1452
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_1452.nasl
2009-09-28 Name : CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:1452 (neon)
File : nvt/ovcesa2009_1452.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-8794 (neon)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_8794.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-8815 (neon)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_8815.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:221 (libneon0.27)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_221.nasl
2009-08-27 Name : Neon Certificate Spoofing and Denial of Service Vulnerability
File : nvt/secpod_neon_cert_spoofing_n_dos_vuln.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
57423 Expat XML Parser Malformed UTF-8 Sequence Handling DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0131.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-1452.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-17 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2013-0131.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-17 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20130108_gnome_vfs2_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-0131.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20090921_neon_on_SL4_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-11-10 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_10_6_5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-10-11 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_neon-6549.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-06 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2009-1452.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-10-30 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_libneon-devel-091012.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-10-30 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_libneon-devel-091012.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-10-30 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_libneon-devel-6550.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-10-29 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_libneon-devel-091012.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-10-29 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_neon-6548.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-1452.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-25 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-221.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-8815.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-8794.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
CONFIRM http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
FEDORA https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00924....
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00945....
MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:221
MLIST http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001044.html
http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001045.html
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0131.html
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/36371
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2341
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52633

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