PSF-2016-6

vendorUSosv

Expat 2.2 (Expat bug #537)

view advisory published 2016-06-30Licence: per 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.

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Related CVEs.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2016-4472US	high8.1	11.9% (96th)	—	2016-06-30
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…

references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://bugs.python.org/issue29591REPORT
https://bugs.python.org/issue30610WEB
https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/bugs/537/WEB

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