Use After Free Affecting expat package, versions <2.2.10-2+deb11u5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-EXPAT-3061093
- published 25 Oct 2022
- disclosed 24 Oct 2022
Introduced: 24 Oct 2022
CVE-2022-43680 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
expat
to version 2.2.10-2+deb11u5 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 Debian:11
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
In libexpat through 2.4.9, there is a use-after free caused by overeager destruction of a shared DTD in XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate in out-of-memory situations.