Description
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.
Published: 2009-10-29
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1923-1 New libhtml-parser-perl packages fix denial of service
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-3608 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-855-1 libhtml-parser-perl vulnerability
History

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Derrick Oswald Html-parser
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:38:28.315Z

Reserved: 2009-10-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-3627

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-10-29T14:30:01.203

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-3627

cve-icon Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2009-10-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-3627 - Bugzilla

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