ALPINE-CVE-2019-15903

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    ALPINE-CVE-2019-15903

    Published: 4 Sept 2019Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-15903

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-15903

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: expat

    Purl: pkg:apk/alpine/expat?arch=source

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.2.7-r1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
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    High