Out-of-bounds Read Affecting expat package, versions <2.2.5-3.6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.59% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-EXPAT-2731656
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed23 Sept 2019

Introduced: 23 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-15903  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-776  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 expat to version 2.2.5-3.6.1 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 SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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.

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