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Ubuntu: USN-5320-1 (CVE-2022-25313): Expat vulnerabilities and regression

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Ubuntu: USN-5320-1 (CVE-2022-25313): Expat vulnerabilities and regression

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/18/2022
Created
03/16/2022
Added
03/11/2022
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.5, an attacker can trigger stack exhaustion in build_model via a large nesting depth in the DTD element.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-lib64expat1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libexpat1

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