RHEL 6 : expat (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - expat: Large number of prefixed XML attributes on a single tag can crash libexpat CVE-2021-45960 - expat:...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : xmltok library vulnerabilities (USN-5455-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5455-1 advisory. Tim Boddy, Gustavo Grieco and others discovered that Expat, that is integrated in xmltok library, incorrectly handled...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5455-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

USN-5455-1: xmltok library vulnerabilities

Tim Boddy, Gustavo Grieco and others discovered that Expat, that is integrated in xmltok library, incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. These issues were only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2020:0497-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : apr-util (EulerOS-SA-2020-1639)

According to the version of the apr-util packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for apr-util (EulerOS-SA-2020-1639)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : python3 (SUSE-SU-2020:0497-1)

This update for python3 fixes the following issues : Update to 3.4.10 jscSLE-9427, bsc1159208 from 3.4.6 : Security issues fixed : Update expat copy from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 to fix the following issues: CVE-2012-0876, CVE-2016-0718, CVE-2016-4472, CVE-2017-9233, CVE-2016-9063 CVE-2017-1000158: Fix an...

Security Bulletin: Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities with Expat may affect IBM HTTP Server shipped with IBM Service Delivery Manager (CVE-2012-0876, CVE-2012-1148, CVE-2016-4472 and CVE-2016-0718)

Summary IBM HTTP Server is shipped as components of IBM Service Delivery Manager. Information about a security vulnerability affecting IBM HTTP Server has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2012-0876 DESCRIPTION: Expat is vulnerable to a denial of service,...

Slackware 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current : python (SSA:2018-124-01)

New python packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2018-124-01. The text itself is copyright C Slackware Linu...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

expat is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks, with the possibility of other attacks. The vulnerability exists because there are multiple integer overflows in the XMLGetBuffer function that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow which may lead to further unspecified impact. CVE-2016-4472 is...

SOL22232964 - Expat XML library vulnerability CVE-2016-4472

Vulnerability Recommended Actions If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Versions known to be not vulnerable column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are...

Fedora 22 : expat (2016-0fd6ca526a)

Security fixes for CVE-2016-4472, CVE-2016-5300, CVE-2016-0718 and CVE-2012-6702. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without...

Fedora 23 : expat (2016-60889583ab)

Security fixes for CVE-2016-4472, CVE-2016-5300, CVE-2016-0718 and CVE-2012-6702. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without...

FreeBSD : expat2 -- denial of service (ff76f0e0-3f11-11e6-b3c8-14dae9d210b8)

Adam Maris reports : It was found that original patch for issues CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716 used overflow checks that could be optimized out by some compilers applying certain optimization settings, which can cause the vulnerability to remain even after applying the patch. %NASLMINLEVEL 7030...

BELL-CVE-2016-4472 CVE-2016-4472 does not affect BellSoft software

Bulletin has no description...

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...

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...