vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-15903): Expat vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Sep 4, 2019 | Sep 13, 2019 | Apr 16, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 4, 2019
Added
Sep 13, 2019
Modified
Apr 16, 2026
Description
In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.
Solutions
ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64expat1ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libexpat1ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libvtk5-10ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libvtk5-8ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxmltok1ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxmltok1t64ubuntu-upgrade-firefoxubuntu-upgrade-lib64expat1ubuntu-upgrade-libexpat1ubuntu-upgrade-libxmltok1t64ubuntu-upgrade-thunderbird
References
Rapid7 Labs
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