GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2016-193

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published May 20, 2016

Gustavo Grieco discovered that Expat does not properly handle certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the Expat library to crash, or potentially, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application (CVE-2016-0718).

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	expat	0 (affected), 2.1.0-9.2.mga5 (unaffected)	—

References

Updated expat packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated expat packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated expat packages fix security vulnerability

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