Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package expat-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-EXPATDEVEL-9634436
  • published3 Apr 2025
  • disclosed30 Aug 2024

Introduced: 30 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-45491  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream expat-devel package and not the expat-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. dtdCopy in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflow for nDefaultAtts on 32-bit platforms (where UINT_MAX equals SIZE_MAX).