Out-of-bounds Read Affecting expat-devel package, versions <0:2.2.5-4.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Rocky Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.46% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ROCKY8-EXPATDEVEL-3300705
  • published 3 Feb 2023
  • disclosed 4 Sep 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 expat-devel to version 0:2.2.5-4.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2020:4484.

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 Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

7.5 high