CVE-2022-23990

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    CVE-2022-23990

    Published: 26 Jan 2022Last Modified: 15 Oct 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has an integer overflow in the doProlog function.

    References: https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html, https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-484086.html, https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-484086.pdf, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html, https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2022-05, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23990.json, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/34NXVL2RZC2YZRV74ZQ3RNFB7WCEUP7D/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R7FF2UH7MPXKTADYSJUAHI2Y5UHBSHUH/, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23990, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-24, https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5073, https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/551

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -81b89678e200820271b72cacdd45fb5868855765

    Affected versions

    R_2_4_3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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