CVE-2019-15903
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Out-of-bounds read
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)7%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00080.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00081.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00002.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00003.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00013.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00016.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00017.htmlAdvisory