Advisories » MGASA-2019-0321

Updated expat packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 07 Nov 2019
Modification date: 07 Nov 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-15903

Description

It was discovered that Expat did not properly handle internal entities
closing the doctype, potentially resulting in denial of service or
information disclosure if a malformed XML file is processed
(CVE-2019-15903).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25661
• https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/317
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-15903

SRPMS

7/core

• expat-2.2.7-1.1.mga7