vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-43680: use-after free caused by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 24, 2022
Added
Jan 13, 2023
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

In libexpat through 2.4.9, there is a use-after free caused by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate in out-of-memory situations.

Solution(s)

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