CVE-2009-3627

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2009-3627 · Published 29/10/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-3627 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting html-parser (derrick oswald).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
html-parser derrick_oswald	`= 1.00= 1.1= 1.2= 1.3= 1.4= 1.41= 1.42= 1.5= 1.6≤ 3.54`	No fix yet

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.

References

gisle/html-parser commit b9aae1e
secunia.com/advisories/37155 · Vendor Advisory
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/9 · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/36807 · Patch
vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3022 · Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53941
issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi · Patch

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