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Red Hat: CVE-2024-45490: libexpat: Negative Length Parsing Vulnerability in libexpat (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 30, 2024
Added
Sep 19, 2024
Modified
Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-expatredhat-upgrade-expat-debuginforedhat-upgrade-expat-debugsourceredhat-upgrade-expat-devel
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