Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting expat package, versions <2.4.3-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.13% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE319-EXPAT-6106259
  • published8 Dec 2023
  • disclosed6 Jan 2022

Introduced: 6 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-46143  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.19 expat to version 2.4.3-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:3.19 relevant fixed versions and status.

In doProlog in xmlparse.c in Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, an integer overflow exists for m_groupSize.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1