CVE-2008-4482 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-4482?

CVE-2008-4482 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 Oct 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The XML parser in Xerces-C++ before 3.0.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via an XML schema definition with a large maxOccurs value, which triggers excessive memory consumption during validation of an XML file.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4482?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Xerces-C\+\+.

How do I fix CVE-2008-4482?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4482 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2008-4482 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-4482 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2017-12627 Null dereference in Apache Xerces C++ Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-2099 Use after free in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-37536 HCL BigFix Platform is vulnerable to an integer overflow in xerces-c++ 3.2.3 High 8.2
• CVE-2024-23807 Apache Xerces C++: Use-after-free on external DTD scan High 8.1
• CVE-2018-1311 Use after free in Apache Xerces-C High 8.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ECHO-3380-4ff5-deb7, GHSA-37q4-89pv-rvxq.