6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
expat is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks with the potential for other impacts. The vulnerability exists because there are multiple integer overflows in the XML_GetBuffer function that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow which may lead to further unspecified impact. This issue is related to CVE-2015-2716.
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