Buffer overflow in Apache Xerces-C\+\+

CVE-2009-1885

Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving nested parentheses and invalid byte values in "simply nested DTD structures," as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.053 (92.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.