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LIN9-8697 : Security Advisory - expat - CVE-2018-20843

Created: Jun 27, 2019    Updated: Aug 15, 2019
Resolved Date: Jul 21, 2019
Found In Version: 9.0.0.1
Fix Version: 9.0.0.22
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 9
Component/s: Userspace

Description

In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).

CREATE(Triage): {Link=https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20843 User=admin}

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