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Buffer Overflow Affecting expat Open this link in a new tab package, versions >=0.0.0

0.0
medium

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • User Interaction

    Required

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-COCOAPODS-EXPAT-470903

  • published

    2 Oct 2019

  • disclosed

    22 Jul 2015

  • credit

    Unknown

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Introduced: 22 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-1283 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-189 Open this link 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 Buffer Overflow. 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. This issue is related to CVE-2015-2716.