debian · CVE-2008-5185

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Priority: medium Published: Updated: Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:46:17 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2008-5185 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (geshi), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

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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