CVE-2008-4482: Input Validation

First published: Wed Oct 08 2008(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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