Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package expat  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-EXPAT-5847007
  • published21 Aug 2023
  • disclosed14 Sept 2022

Introduced: 14 Sep 2022

CVE-2022-40674  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Wolfi security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Wolfi:latest.

NVD Description

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

libexpat before 2.4.9 has a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c.

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