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Debian: CVE-2018-20004: mxml -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-20004: mxml -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/10/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/20/2019
Modified
02/18/2020

Description

An issue has been found in Mini-XML (aka mxml) 2.12. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in mxml_write_node in mxml-file.c via vectors involving a double-precision floating point number and the '<order type="real">' substring, as demonstrated by testmxml.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-mxml

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