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Permalink CVE-2024-8176
7.5 HIGH
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): NETWORK
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): NONE
  • User interaction (UI): NONE
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): NONE
  • Integrity impact (I): NONE
  • Availability impact (A): HIGH
created 6 months, 1 week ago
Libexpat: expat: improper restriction of xml entity expansion depth in libexpat

A stack overflow vulnerability exists in the libexpat library due to the way it handles recursive entity expansion in XML documents. When parsing an XML document with deeply nested entity references, libexpat can be forced to recurse indefinitely, exhausting the stack space and causing a crash. This issue could lead to denial of service (DoS) or, in some cases, exploitable memory corruption, depending on the environment and library usage.

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Affected products

expat
  • *
rhcos
firefox
libexpat
  • <2.7.0
xmlrpc-c
  • *
lua-expat
mingw-expat
thunderbird
compat-expat1
firefox:flatpak/firefox
discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9
  • *
thunderbird:flatpak/thunderbird
discovery/discovery-server-rhel9
  • *
Red Hat JBoss Core Services 2.4.62.SP1
devworkspace/devworkspace-project-clone-rhel9
  • *
registry.redhat.io/discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9
  • *
registry.redhat.io/discovery/discovery-server-rhel9
  • *
registry.redhat.io/devworkspace/devworkspace-project-clone-rhel9
  • *

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