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GHSA-4HVH-M426-WV8W

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-08-30 03:30 – Updated: 2025-11-04 18:31

Details

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer.

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2024-45490 (GCVE-0-2024-45490)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-30 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:15

Summary

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer.

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

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	https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/890
	https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/887

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CVE-2024-45490 (GCVE-0-2024-45490)

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