{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2009-08-18T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "neon: billion laughs DoS attack",
    "id" : "518215",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518215"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.3",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2009-09-21T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1452",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "neon-0:0.24.7-4.el4_8.2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2009-09-21T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:1452",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "neon-0:0.25.5-10.el5_4.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2013-01-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2013:0131",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "gnome-vfs2-0:2.16.2-10.el5",
    "impact" : "low"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "gnome-vfs2",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "impact" : "low"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2473\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2473" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-2473",
  "csaw" : false
}