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ALPINE-CVE-2016-0718 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL

Expat allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed input document, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1

9.800000190734863

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Alpine:v3.4	expat	0, 2.0.1-r0, 2.0.1-r1

Timeline

May 26, 2016 CVE Published
Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

References

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-0718 advisory

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