system/expat: CVE-2019-15903: heap-based buffer over read
Bugzilla ID | 192 |
Alias(es) | CVE-2019-15903 |
Reporter | Max Rees (sroracle) |
Assignee | Max Rees (sroracle) |
Reported | 2019-09-09 16:09:50 -0500 |
Modified | 2019-09-28 13:36:31 -0500 |
Status | RESOLVED FIXED |
Version | 1.0-BETA3 |
Hardware | Adélie Linux / All |
Importance | --- / normal |
URL | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15903 |
Description
In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into
changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive
call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then
resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.