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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4472-1 expat -- security update

Date Reported:

28 Jun 2019

Affected Packages:

expat

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 931031.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-20843.

More information:

It was discovered that Expat, an XML parsing C library, did not properly handled XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons, potentially resulting in denial of service.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.0-2+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.

For the detailed security status of expat please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/expat