Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting expat package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.42% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-EXPAT-470705
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed13 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Apr 2017

CVE-2016-9063  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for expat.

Overview

expat is a XML parser library written in C.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound expat is vulnerable to integer overflows. A malicious user can set XML_CONTEXT_BYTES to be undefined to cause an integer overflow, crashing the application.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1