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CVE-2009-3560

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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.

Date published : 2009-12-04

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37203

http://expat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expat/expat/lib/xmlparse.c?r1=1.164&r2=1.165

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