Out-of-Bounds Affecting expat package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
1.16% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-EXPAT-470840
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed15 May 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 May 2016

CVE-2016-4472  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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 Out-of-Bounds. The vulnerability exists because there are multiple integer overflows in the XML_GetBuffer function that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow which may lead to further unspecified impact. CVE-2016-4472 is related to the original issues CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716, which were both incomplete due to the possibility of having the overflow checks optimized out during compilation.

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