{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2008-5185", "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 highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an XML sequence containing an opening delimiter without a closing delimiter, as demonstrated using \"<\"." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "32377", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32377" }, { "name": "geshi-xml-dos(46769)", "refsource": "XF", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46769" }, { "name": "http://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/geshi.php?r1=1321&r2=1322&view=patch", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/geshi.php?r1=1321&r2=1322&view=patch" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20081120 CVE id request: another geshi issue (was: [oss-security] GeSHi: Clarification about the recent security (non-)issues (SA32559))", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/4" } ] } }