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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-0718: Vulnerability in libexpat

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-0718: Vulnerability in libexpat

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/26/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

Expat allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed input document, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-expat-2-2-0-0-175-3-11-0-4-0

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