high7.5
CVE-2019-15903
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_GetCu…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Libexpat Project | Libexpat | before 2.2.8 |
| Python | Python | from 2.7.0 before 2.7.17 from 3.5.0 before 3.5.8 from 3.6.0 before 3.6.10 from 3.7.0 before 3.7.5 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00080.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00081.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00003.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00019.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154503/Slackware-Security-Advisory-expat-Updates.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154927/Slackware-Security-Advisory-python-Updates.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154947/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-firefox-Updates.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/23
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/27
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/30
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3210
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3237
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3756
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/c20b758c332d9a13afbbb276d30db1d183a85d43
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/317
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/342