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Use After Free Affecting expat package, versions <2.4.9-r0

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.53% (77th percentile)
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NVD
8.1 high
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SUSE
8.1 high
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Red Hat
8.1 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE314-EXPAT-3028182
  • published 21 Sep 2022
  • disclosed 14 Sep 2022
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Introduced: 14 Sep 2022

CVE-2022-40674 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.14 expat to version 2.4.9-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream expat package and not the expat package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.14 relevant fixed versions and status.

libexpat before 2.4.9 has a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c.

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