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CVE-2013-0338

medium
Published 2013-04-25 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka "internal entity expansion" with linear complexity.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse12.1affected
suse suse12.2affected
suse suse12.3affected
ubuntu ubuntu8.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu11.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1
debian debianforkyfixed2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1
debian debiansidfixed2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
xmlsoftlibxml2{"endIncluding":"2.9.0"}
xmlsoftlibxml21.7.0
xmlsoftlibxml21.7.1
xmlsoftlibxml21.7.2
xmlsoftlibxml21.7.3
xmlsoftlibxml21.7.4
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.0
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.1
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.2
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.3
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.4
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.5
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.6
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.7
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.9
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.10
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.13
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.14
xmlsoftlibxml21.8.16
xmlsoftlibxml22.0.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.1.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.1.1
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.1
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.2
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.3
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.4
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.5
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.6
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.7
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.8
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.9
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.10
xmlsoftlibxml22.2.11
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.1
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.2
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.3
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.4
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.5
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.6
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.7
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.8
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.9
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.10
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.11
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.12
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.13
xmlsoftlibxml22.3.14
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.1
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.2
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.3
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.4
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.5
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.6
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.7
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.8
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.9
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.10
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.11
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.12
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.13
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.14
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.15
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.16
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.17
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.18
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.19
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.20
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.21
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.22
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.23
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.24
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.25
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.26
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.27
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.28
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.29
xmlsoftlibxml22.4.30
xmlsoftlibxml22.5.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.5.4
xmlsoftlibxml22.5.7
xmlsoftlibxml22.5.8
xmlsoftlibxml22.5.10
xmlsoftlibxml22.5.11
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.1
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.2
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.3
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.4
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.5
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.6
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.7
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.8
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.9
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.11
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.12
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.13
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.14
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.16
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.17
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.18
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.20
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.21
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.22
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.23
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.24
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.25
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.26
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.27
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.28
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.29
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.30
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.31
xmlsoftlibxml22.6.32
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.0
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.1
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.2
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.3
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.4
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.5
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.6
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.7
xmlsoftlibxml22.7.8
xmlsoftlibxml22.9.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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