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CVE-2019-15903

Public on 2019-09-04
Modified on 2021-01-13
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.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 expat 2021-01-12 22:51 ALAS-2021-1459
Amazon Linux 2 - Core expat 2020-10-22 17:32 ALAS2-2020-1513
Amazon Linux 2 - Core thunderbird 2019-12-13 19:41 ALAS2-2019-1376

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P