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Debian LTS: DLA-3783-1 Moderate Expat Denial of Service Vulnerability

debian lts
Calendar Grey April 9, 2024
Dist Debian Esm H88
Global interdependency exposes systems to risks, with adversaries exploiting weaknesses to induce outages via incessant reanalyses. Suggested patch for Ubuntu.
Expat, an XML parsing C library has been found to have an vulnerability that allows an attacker to perform a denial of service (resource consumption, when many full reparsings are ...

Summary

When parsing a really big token that requires multiple buffer fills to
complete, expat has to re-parse the token from start multiple times,
which takes time. These patches introduce a heuristic that, when having
failed on the same token multiple times, defers further parsing until
there's significantly more data available.

The patch also introduces an optiional API,
XML_SetReparseDeferralEnabled(), to disable the new heuristic.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version
2.2.6-2+deb10u7.

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/source-package/expat

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


Package: expat
Version: 2.2.6-2+deb10u7
CVE ID: CVE-2023-52425
Debian Bug: 1063238

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