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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-45490: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-45490: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/30/2024
Created
10/02/2024
Added
10/01/2024
Modified
10/21/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-expat
  • alpine-linux-upgrade-qt5-qtwebengine

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