vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-c5bd8a25-99a6-11e9-a598-f079596b62f9: expat2 -- Fix extraction of namespace prefixes from XML names

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 16, 2019
Added
Sep 17, 2019
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

expat project reports: XML names with multiple colons could end up in the wrong namespace, and take a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing, opening the door to use for denial-of-service attacks

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-expat

References

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