high7.5
CVE-2018-20843
In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM a…
Impact
In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Libexpat Project | Libexpat | before 2.2.7 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 8.0, 9.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Versions 29, 30 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Versions 15.0, 15.1 |
| Oracle | Hospitality Res 3700 | from 5.7 through 5.7.6 |
| Oracle | Http Server | Versions 12.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0 |
| Oracle | Outside In Technology | Versions 8.5.4, 8.5.5 |
| Tenable | Nessus | before 8.15.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00039.html
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5226
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_7/expat/Changes
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/186
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/262
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/262/commits/11f8838bf99ea0a6f0b76f9760c43704d00c4ff6
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00028.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CEJJSQSG3KSUQY4FPVHZ7ZTT7FORMFVD/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IDAUGEB3TUP6NEKJDBUBZX7N5OAUOOOK/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/39
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201911-08
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190703-0001/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K51011533
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4040-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4040-2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4472
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-11