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F5 Networks: K05295469: Expat vulnerability CVE-2019-15903

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F5 Networks: K05295469: Expat vulnerability CVE-2019-15903

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/04/2019
Created
02/19/2022
Added
02/18/2022
Modified
12/08/2023

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)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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