MGASA-2016-0193

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    MGASA-2016-0193

    Published: 20 May 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-0718

    Summary: Updated expat packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Gustavo Grieco discovered that Expat does not properly handle certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the Expat library to crash, or potentially, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application (CVE-2016-0718).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0193.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18479, https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3582

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: expat

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/expat?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.1.0-9.2.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High