Input validation error in expat - CVE-2015-1283

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Input validation error in expat - CVE-2015-1283

Published: July 23, 2015 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33808
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1283
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

Multiple integer overflows in the XML_GetBuffer function in Expat through 2.1.0, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 and other products, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted XML data, a related issue to CVE-2015-2716.


Affected software

expat
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse
expat (Alpine package)
libxmltok1t64 (Ubuntu package)
libxmltok1 (Ubuntu package)
NetWorker Management Console

How to mitigate CVE-2015-1283

Install update from vendor's website.

expat (Alpine package) - update to 2.1.1-r0
libxmltok1t64 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 1.2-4.1ubuntu3.1
libxmltok1 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
NetWorker Management Console - update to 19.12.0.1

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