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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4472

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of servic...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.

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