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LIN1021-2318 : Security Advisory - expat - CVE-2021-45960

Created: Jan 3, 2022 Updated: Mar 10, 2022

Resolved Date: Mar 10, 2022

Found In Version: 10.21.20.1

Fix Version: 10.21.20.10

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21

Component/s: Userspace

Description

In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 (or more) places in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c can lead to realloc misbehavior (e.g., allocating too few bytes, or only freeing memory).

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) CVE-2021-45960 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45960)

CVEs

CVE-2021-45960