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  • High 7.5

    libexpat through 2.9.0 Denial of Service via Billion Laughs Detection Delay

    libexpat through 2.9.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability because billion laughs protection in accountingDiffTolerated() in xmlparse.c detects entity amplification too late. Attackers can supply a moderately sized XML document with a large DTD and nes…

  • High 8.2

    libexpat Heap Buffer Over-read in xmlparse.c via XML_ParseBuffer

    libexpat before commit 13c5f63 contains a heap buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlparse.c. XML_ParseBuffer advances the parse buffer end with parser->m_bufferEnd += len using a caller-supplied length that is not validated against the allocated buffer size, …

  • High 7.5

    Expat before 2.8.5 Malformed UTF-16 Acceptance via Unchecked Surrogate

    Expat before 2.8.5 fails to validate that a high surrogate in UTF-16 input is followed by a low surrogate, allowing malformed UTF-16 sequences to be accepted. Attackers can supply UTF-16 encoded XML containing lone high surrogates that consume the following c…

  • High 7.5

    Expat Out-of-Bounds Read via dtdCopy

    Expat through 2.8.3 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that allows attackers to trigger memory corruption by processing XML with external entity parsers created via XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate. A struct size mismatch between ELEMENT_TYPE members …