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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-5300: expat security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-5300: expat security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
06/16/2016
Created
09/26/2019
Added
09/25/2019
Modified
09/25/2019

Description

The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-expat
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-expat-devel

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