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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-52426: XML Entity Expansion

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-52426: XML Entity Expansion

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/04/2024
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

libexpat through 2.5.0 allows recursive XML Entity Expansion if XML_DTD is undefined at compile time.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-expat

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