Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting expat package, versions <2.4.1-2ubuntu0.1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.01% (84th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU2110-EXPAT-2359558
- published 25 Jan 2022
- disclosed 24 Jan 2022
Introduced: 24 Jan 2022
CVE-2022-23852 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:21.10
expat
to version 2.4.1-2ubuntu0.1 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 Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:21.10
relevant fixed versions and status.
Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for configurations with a nonzero XML_CONTEXT_BYTES.