CVE catalog
CVE-2009-2473
neon27: CVE-2009-2473
- Severity
- Low
- Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 8.44% · Oct 27, 2026
neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | neon27 | sid | 0.37.1-1 | not affected |
| Debian | neon27 | forky | 0.37.1-1 | not affected |
| Debian | neon27 | trixie | 0.34.2-1 | not affected |
| Debian | neon27 | bookworm | 0.32.5-1 | not affected |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | neon27 | source | sid | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | neon27 | source | forky | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | neon27 | source | trixie | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | neon27 | source | bookworm | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [libneon27]Not affected
Source package: [neon27]
Details (2)
0.32.5-1· amd64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · neon27 · debian · bookworm
0.32.5-1· arm64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · neon27 · debian · bookworm
- [libneon27-dev]Not affected
Source package: [neon27]
Details (2)
0.32.5-1· amd64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · neon27 · debian · bookworm
0.32.5-1· arm64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · neon27 · debian · bookworm
- [libneon27-gnutls]Not affected
Source package: [neon27]
Details (2)
0.32.5-1· amd64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · neon27 · debian · bookworm
0.32.5-1· arm64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · neon27 · debian · bookworm
- [libneon27-gnutls-dev]Not affected
Source package: [neon27]
Details (2)
0.32.5-1· amd64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · neon27 · debian · bookworm
0.32.5-1· arm64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · neon27 · debian · bookworm
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/opensuse-su-2024_10496-1.json]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-2473]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2009/cve-2009-2473.json]
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