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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-0718

Expat allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed input document, which...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Expat allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed input document, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 expat

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.1-2"}]}]

Debian:13 expat

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.1-2"}]}]

Debian:14 expat

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.1.1-2"}]}]

Debian:12 libxmltok

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org