vulnerability

IBM HTTP Server: CVE-2022-25235: libexpat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation in xmltok_impl

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 15, 2022
Added
Aug 31, 2022
Modified
Nov 20, 2025

Description

libexpat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation in xmltok_impl.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted content with malformed encoding, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.

Solutions

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