PSF-2012-4

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    PSF-2012-4

    Published: 3 Jul 2012Last Modified: 9 Oct 2025
    Aliases:
    CVE-2012-0876

    Summary: Expat 2.2.1

    Details: The XML parser (xmlparse.c) in expat before 2.1.0 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML file with many identifiers with the same value.

    References: https://libexpat.github.io/doc/cve-2017-9233/, https://bugs.python.org/issue30694, https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_1/expat/Changes

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2ada64d2a073f85f135461833952dbe8d656810d

    Affected versions

    2.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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