PSF-2016-2

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    PSF-2016-2

    Published: 26 May 2016Last Modified: 9 Oct 2025
    Aliases:
    CVE-2016-0718

    Summary: Expat 2.2 (Expat bug #537)

    Details: Expat allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed input document, which triggers a buffer overflow.

    References: https://libexpat.github.io/doc/cve-2017-9233/, https://bugs.python.org/issue29591, https://bugs.python.org/issue30694, https://bugs.python.org/issue30610, https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_1/expat/Changes, https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/bugs/537/

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0e4571a68a7f48e8469ef05b04ba3463d3fd82c0

    Affected versions

    2.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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