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HistoryOct 31, 2022 - 12:00 a.m.

Expat: Denial of Service

2022-10-3100:00:00
Gentoo Foundation
security.gentoo.org
12

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

76.5%

Background

Expat is a set of XML parsing libraries.

Description

In certain out-of-memory situations, Expat may free memory before it should, leading to a use-after-free.

Impact

A use-after-free can result in denial of service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Expat users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/expat-2.5.0"
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyalldev-libs/expat< 2.5.0UNKNOWN

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

76.5%