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Debian: CVE-2024-28757: expat, libxmltok -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 10, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 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

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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