ghsa-pj3x-74qr-vrr4
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-02 03:47
Modified
2024-02-15 21:31
Details

The updatePosition function in lib/xmltok_impl.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in Python, PyXML, w3c-libwww, and other software, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with crafted UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2009-3720"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2009-11-03T16:30:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "The updatePosition function in lib/xmltok_impl.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in Python, PyXML, w3c-libwww, and other software, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with crafted UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2625.",
  "id": "GHSA-pj3x-74qr-vrr4",
  "modified": "2024-02-15T21:31:24Z",
  "published": "2022-05-02T03:47:57Z",
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