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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-28757: XML Entity Expansion

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 10, 2024
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

libexpat through 2.6.1 allows an XML Entity Expansion attack when there is isolated use of external parsers (created via XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate).

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-expat
Title
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