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CentOS Linux: CVE-2019-15903: Critical: firefox security update (Multiple Advisories)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2019-15903: Critical: firefox security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/04/2019
Created
10/31/2019
Added
10/30/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-expat
  • centos-upgrade-expat-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-expat-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-expat-devel
  • centos-upgrade-expat-static
  • centos-upgrade-firefox
  • centos-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-firefox-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-thunderbird
  • centos-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource

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