ELSA-2012-0731 Moderate: Oracle Linux expat security update
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
11/03/2009
07/25/2018
07/17/2012
04/11/2019
Description
Memory leak in the poolGrow function in expat/lib/xmlparse.c in expat before 2.1.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of crafted XML files that cause improperly-handled reallocation failures when expanding entities.
Solution(s)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-expat
- oracle-linux-upgrade-expat-devel
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