vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-20843: expat, libxmltok -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 24, 2019
Added
Jul 2, 2019
Modified
May 30, 2025

Description

In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).

Solution(s)

debian-upgrade-expatno-fix-debian-deb-package
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