UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15903

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15903

    Published: 4 Sept 2019Last Modified: 28 May 2026
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    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.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: expat

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/expat?arch=source&distro=trusty%2Fesm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.1.0-4ubuntu1.4+esm2

    Affected versions

    2.1.0-4
    2.1.0-4ubuntu1
    2.1.0-4ubuntu1.1
    2.1.0-4ubuntu1.2
    2.1.0-4ubuntu1.3
    2.1.0-4ubuntu1.4
    2.1.0-4ubuntu1.4+esm1

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