{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "medium"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:11",
        "name": "geshi"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.0.8.1-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "medium"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:12",
        "name": "geshi"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.0.8.1-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "medium"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:13",
        "name": "geshi"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.0.8.1-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "medium"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:14",
        "name": "geshi"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.0.8.1-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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\".",
  "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5185",
  "modified": "2026-04-28T19:53:21.308923228Z",
  "published": "2008-11-21T02:30:00.483Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5185"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2008-5185"
  ]
}