CVE-2019-15903

high

Description

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.

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-11

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4571

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4549

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4530

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4202-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4165-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4132-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4132-1/

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210795

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210794

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210793

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210790

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210789

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210785

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190926-0004/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201911-08

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/37

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/30

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/29

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/24

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/1

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/21

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/17

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S26LGXXQ7YF2BP3RGOWELBFKM6BHF6UG/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BDUTI5TVQWIGGQXPEVI4T2ENHFSBMIBP/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A4TZKPJFTURRLXIGLB34WVKQ5HGY6JJA/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00017.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00006.html

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/318

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/342

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/317

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/c20b758c332d9a13afbbb276d30db1d183a85d43

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3756

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3237

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3210

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/30

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/27

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/23

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154947/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-firefox-Updates.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154927/Slackware-Security-Advisory-python-Updates.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154503/Slackware-Security-Advisory-expat-Updates.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00008.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00019.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00018.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00017.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00016.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00013.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00003.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00002.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00000.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00081.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00080.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-09-04

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High