vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2019-15903 Buffer overflow in expat

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 4, 2019
Added
Sep 9, 2022
Modified
Mar 30, 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

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
Title
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