| Name | CVE-2009-1885 |
| Description | Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in "simply nested DTD structures," as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 540297, 541986 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| xerces-c (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.1.1-5.1+deb8u6 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 3.1.4+debian-2+deb9u2 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 3.1.4+debian-2+deb9u3 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 3.2.2+debian-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.2.3+debian-3+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.2.4+debian-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.2.4+debian-1.3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[etch] - xerces-c <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[lenny] - xerces-c <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[etch] - xerces27 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)