{
  "modified": "2025-08-09T19:01:27Z",
  "published": "2008-11-21T02:30:00Z",
  "id": "CVE-2008-5185",
  "details": "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 \"\u003c\".",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/geshi.php?r1=1321\u0026r2=1322\u0026view=patch"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32377"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46769"
    }
  ]
}