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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-20843): Expat vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-20843): Expat vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
06/24/2019
Created
06/28/2019
Added
06/26/2019
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-lib64expat1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libexpat1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libvtk5-10
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libvtk5-8
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxmltok1

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