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GHSA-6w45-gwrj-v625
GHSA-6w45-gwrj-v625
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022
Multiple integer overflows in the XML_GetBuffer function in Expat through 2.1.0, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 and other products, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted XML data, a related issue to CVE-2015-2716.
Risk scores
CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Timeline
- May 13, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory
- Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch (3 in total, the first dated here)
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vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-6w45-gwrj-v625
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-6w45-gwrj-v625
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References
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html url
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20 url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00007.html url
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3315 url
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3318 url
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033031 url
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2726-1 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1283 advisory
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=492052 url
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365 url
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09 url
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-21 url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00064.html url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00006.html url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00010.html url
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1224303003 url
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html url
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1499.html url
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html url
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