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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-23852: Expat: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-23852: Expat: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/24/2022
Created
09/30/2022
Added
09/30/2022
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for configurations with a nonzero XML_CONTEXT_BYTES.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-expat

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