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Debian: CVE-2024-45492: expat -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2024-45492: expat -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/30/2024
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
09/19/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflow for m_groupSize on 32-bit platforms (where UINT_MAX equals SIZE_MAX).

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-expat

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