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CVE-2013-2156

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2013-06-18	apache-xml-security-c -- heap overflow

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CVE-2013-2156 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2013-2156
Phase	Assigned(20130219)

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Exclusive Canonicalization functionality (xsec/canon/XSECC14n20010315.cpp) in Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ (aka xml-security-c) before 1.7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PrefixList attribute.

References

Source	Reference
FULLDISC	20130617 Re: CVE-2013-2156: Apache Santuario C++ heap overflow vulnerability
MISC	http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1493961
CONFIRM	http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2013-2156.txt
DEBIAN	DSA-2710