Out-of-bounds Read Affecting expat package, versions <2.2.0-2+deb9u3


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.51% (76th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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SUSE
7.5 high
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Red Hat
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-EXPAT-460773
  • published 4 Sep 2019
  • disclosed 4 Sep 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 expat to version 2.2.0-2+deb9u3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream expat package and not the expat package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.