DSA-5266: -1 expat -- security update

Published Oct 30, 2022

Updated

A heap use-after-free vulnerability after overeager destruction of a shared DTD in the XMLExternalEntityParserCreate function in Expat, an XML parsing C library, may result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

Affected Software

2 affected components

debian/expat

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

Upgrade
Upgrade expat to a version that resolves this vulnerability.
Patch DSA-5266-1

Event History

Oct 30, 2022

Advisory Published

12:00 AM

Child vulnerabilities

Contains the following vulnerabilities.

CVE-2022-43680

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