vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2024-45490: ELSA-2024-6754: expat security update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 30, 2024
Added
Oct 16, 2024
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer.
A flaw was found in libexpat's xmlparse.c component. This vulnerability allows an attacker to cause improper handling of XML data by providing a negative length value to the XML_ParseBuffer function.

Solutions

oracle-linux-upgrade-expatoracle-linux-upgrade-expat-devel
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