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Debian: CVE-2024-45491: expat -- security update

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 30, 2024
Added
Sep 19, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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

Solution

debian-upgrade-expat
Title
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