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FreeBSD: VID-C5BD8A25-99A6-11E9-A598-F079596B62F9: expat2 -- Fix extraction of namespace prefixes from XML names

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FreeBSD: VID-C5BD8A25-99A6-11E9-A598-F079596B62F9: expat2 -- Fix extraction of namespace prefixes from XML names

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/19/2019
Created
09/18/2019
Added
09/17/2019
Modified
09/17/2019

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(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-expat

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