cvelist/2008/5xxx/CVE-2008-5185.json

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        "ID": "CVE-2008-5185",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
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                                "product_name": "n/a",
                                "version": {
                                    "version_data": [
                                        {
                                            "version_value": "n/a"
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    "description": {
        "description_data": [
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                "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 \"<\"."
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    "references": {
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            {
                "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"
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