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Ubuntu: USN-6694-1 (CVE-2024-28757): Expat vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-6694-1 (CVE-2024-28757): Expat vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/10/2024
Created
03/16/2024
Added
03/15/2024
Modified
10/23/2024

Description

libexpat through 2.6.1 allows an XML Entity Expansion attack when there is isolated use of external parsers (created via XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate).

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-expat
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libexpat1

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