CVE-2024-50602 Affecting expat package, versions <2.4.4-150400.3.25.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-EXPAT-8384057
  • published19 Nov 2024
  • disclosed18 Nov 2024

Introduced: 18 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-50602  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 expat to version 2.4.4-150400.3.25.1 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:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.4. There is a crash within the XML_ResumeParser function because XML_StopParser can stop/suspend an unstarted parser.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1