{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2008-4482", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "xerces-maxoccurs-dos(45596)", "refsource": "XF", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45596" }, { "name": "31533", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31533" }, { "name": "http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/releases.html", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/releases.html" }, { "name": "32108", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/32108" }, { "name": "http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1051", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1051" } ] } }