Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-20843: expat large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
06/24/2019
07/03/2019
07/03/2019
12/04/2019
Description
In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-expat
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