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USN-7000-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2024-45490)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-09-12 10:01 – Updated: 2026-06-29 10:53 – Source website
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Summary
expat vulnerabilities
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Shang-Hung Wan discovered that Expat did not properly handle certain function calls when a negative input length was provided. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-45490)

Shang-Hung Wan discovered that Expat did not properly handle the potential for an integer overflow on 32-bit platforms. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-45491, CVE-2024-45492)

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