vulnerability

IBM HTTP Server: CVE-2022-40674: libexpat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 5, 2022
Added
Nov 26, 2025
Modified
Nov 26, 2025

Description

libexpat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.

Solutions

ibm-http_server-apply-interim-fix-ph49572-for-7_0ibm-http_server-apply-interim-fix-ph49572-for-8_0ibm-http_server-apply-interim-fix-ph49572-for-8_5ibm-http_server-apply-interim-fix-ph49572-for-9_0ibm-http_server-apply-fix-pack-7_0_0_46ibm-http_server-apply-fix-pack-8_0_0_16ibm-http_server-apply-fix-pack-8_5_5_23ibm-http_server-apply-fix-pack-9_0_5_14
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