DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3627

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3627

    Published: 29 Oct 2009Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2009-3627

    Summary:

    Details: The decode_entities function in util.c in HTML-Parser before 3.63 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an incomplete SGML numeric character reference, which triggers generation of an invalid UTF-8 character.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3627

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libhtml-parser-perl

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/libhtml-parser-perl?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.64-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High