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CVE details

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_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.

Score
7.5 high
Published
2019-09-04
Links
NVD · cve.org

Affected ports (2)

PortPackageVersionStatusMaintainer
textproc/linux-c7-expatlinux-c7-expat2.1.0_5unaddressedemulation@FreeBSD.org
textproc/linux-c7-expat-devellinux-c7-expat-devel2.1.0_1unaddressedemulation@FreeBSD.org

VuXML

Template for a VuXML entry

Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.

  <vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
    <topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>linux-c7-expat</name>
	<range><lt>2.2.8</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>linux-c7-expat-devel</name>
	<range><lt>2.2.8</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>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.</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2019-15903</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15903</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2019-09-04</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-25</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>