vulnerability
Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-15903: Expat: Multiple vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Sep 4, 2019 | Nov 25, 2019 | Mar 31, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 4, 2019
Added
Nov 25, 2019
Modified
Mar 31, 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
gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-expat
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