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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-45492: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 30, 2024
Added
Oct 1, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflow for m_groupSize on 32-bit platforms (where UINT_MAX equals SIZE_MAX).

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-expatalpine-linux-upgrade-qt5-qtwebenginealpine-linux-upgrade-qt6-qtwebengine
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