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FreeBSD: VID-CA5F3BBC-7A62-11EF-9533-F875A43E1796 (CVE-2024-45490): expat -- multiple vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-CA5F3BBC-7A62-11EF-9533-F875A43E1796 (CVE-2024-45490): expat -- multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/30/2024
Created
10/01/2024
Added
09/29/2024
Modified
10/06/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-expat

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