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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-9233: Vulnerability in libexpat

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 25, 2017
Added
Sep 19, 2017
Modified
Feb 1, 2022

Description

XML External Entity vulnerability in libexpat 2.2.0 and earlier (Expat XML Parser Library) allows attackers to put the parser in an infinite loop using a malformed external entity definition from an external DTD.

Solution

oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-expat-2-2-1-0-175-3-24-0-3-0
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