oss-security - Re: CVE id request: another geshi issue (was: GeSHi: Clarification about the recent security (non-)issues (SA32559))

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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:27:25 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
cc: toots@...tageeks.org
Subject: Re: CVE id request: another geshi issue (was:
 GeSHi: Clarification about the recent security (non-)issues
 (SA32559))

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Name: CVE-2008-5185
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5185
Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20081120 CVE id request: another geshi issue (was: [oss-security] GeSHi: Clarification about the recent security (non-)issues (SA32559))
Reference: URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/4
Reference: CONFIRM:http://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/geshi.php?r1=1321&r2=1322&view=patch

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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