Debian Security Advisory
DLA-990-1 expat -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 18 Jun 2017
- Affected Packages:
- expat
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9233.
- More information:
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It was discovered that there was an infinite loop vulnerability in expat, a XML parsing C library:
https://libexpat.github.io/doc/cve-2017-9233/
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, this issue has been fixed in expat version 2.1.0-1+deb7u5.We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.