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

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 3, 2022
Added
Jun 17, 2026
Modified
Jun 17, 2026

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

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest
Title
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