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geshi — security advisory
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 "<".
- Products
- geshi
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.0.8.1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2008-5185
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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 "<".
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5185
geshi
Fixed versions: 1.0.8.1-1
geshi
Fixed versions: 1.0.8.1-1
geshi
Fixed versions: 1.0.8.1-1
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5185",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5185",
"summary": "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 \"<\".",
"evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5185",
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],
"package": {
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},
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},
"ecosystem_specific": {
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:36.174246057Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
"CVE-2008-5185"
],
"references": [
"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5185"
]
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2008-5185",
"evidence": "/upstream"
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],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": null
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 417877,
"published_at": "2008-11-21T02:30:00.483+00:00"
}