PSF-2016-2

vendorUSosv

Expat 2.2 (Expat bug #537)

view advisory published 2016-05-26Licence: per 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.

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Related CVEs.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2016-0718US	critical9.8	13.3% (96th)	—	2016-05-26
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.

references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://bugs.python.org/issue29591REPORT
https://bugs.python.org/issue30610WEB
https://bugs.python.org/issue30694REPORT
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_1/expat/ChangesWEB
https://libexpat.github.io/doc/cve-2017-9233/ADVISORY
https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/bugs/537/WEB

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