CVE-2016-4472

CVE-2016-4472 affects the Expat XML parser: overflow protections can be removed by compilers with certain optimizations, allowing remote attackers to cause a crash or potentially execute code via crafted XML. The entry notes this stems from an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716. C...

CVE-2016-4472

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and...

PSF-2016-6 Expat 2.2 (Expat bug #537)

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and...

CVE-2016-4472

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and...

CVE-2016-4472

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and...

Fedora Update for expat FEDORA-2016-7c6e7a9265

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: expat-2.1.1-2.fc24

This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parse...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3013-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3010-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Expat vulnerabilities (USN-3010-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3010-1 advisory. It was discovered that Expat unexpectedly called srand in certain circumstances. This could reduce the security of calling applications...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : xmlrpc-c vulnerabilities (USN-3013-1)

It was discovered that the Expat code in XML-RPC for C and C++ unexpectedly called srand in certain circumstances. This could reduce the security of calling applications. CVE-2012-6702 It was discovered that the Expat code in XML-RPC for C and C++ incorrectly handled seeding the random number...

USN-3013-1: XML-RPC for C and C++ vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Expat code in XML-RPC for C and C++ unexpectedly called srand in certain circumstances. This could reduce the security of calling applications. CVE-2012-6702 It was discovered that the Expat code in XML-RPC for C and C++ incorrectly handled seeding the random number...

USN-3010-1 expat vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Expat unexpectedly called srand in certain circumstances. This could reduce the security of calling applications. CVE-2012-6702 It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled seeding the random number generator. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a...

USN-3010-1: Expat vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Expat unexpectedly called srand in certain circumstances. This could reduce the security of calling applications. CVE-2012-6702 It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled seeding the random number generator. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a...

Fedora Update for expat FEDORA-2016-60889583ab

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: expat-2.1.1-2.fc23

This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parse...

Expat Encryption Mechanism Breach Vulnerability

Expat is a C-based XML parser library , it uses a stream-oriented parser . A security vulnerability exists in Expat when a program uses or passes a 0-seed in a parser call to XMLSetHashSalt, allowing a remote attacker to exploit the vulnerability to compromise cryptographic protection mechanisms...

Expat XML Parser Denial of Service Vulnerability

Expat is a C-based XML parser library , it uses a stream-oriented parser . Expat's XML parser fails to use proper entropy for hash initialization, allowing a remote attacker to exploit a vulnerability that could be exploited to construct special XML documents that would trick an application into...

MGASA-2016-0227 Updated expat packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated expat packages fix security vulnerabilities: An issue was introduced when CVE-2012-0876 was addressed. Stefan Sørensen discovered that the use of the function XMLParse seeds the random number generator generating repeated outputs for rand calls CVE-2012-6702. Due to an incomplete solution...

Updated expat packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated expat packages fix security vulnerabilities: An issue was introduced when CVE-2012-0876 was addressed. Stefan Sørensen discovered that the use of the function XMLParse seeds the random number generator generating repeated outputs for rand calls CVE-2012-6702. Due to an incomplete solution...