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DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9233

XML External Entity vulnerability in libexpat 2.2.0 and earlier (Expat XML Parser Library) allows attackers to put the parser in an infinite loop usin...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

XML External Entity vulnerability in libexpat 2.2.0 and earlier (Expat XML Parser Library) allows attackers to put the parser in an infinite loop using a malformed external entity definition from an external DTD.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 expat

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.2.1-1"}]}]

Debian:13 expat

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.2.1-1"}]}]

Debian:14 expat

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.2.1-1"}]}]

Debian:12 libxmltok

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

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org