Source: expat
Version: 2.4.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/531
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Control: found -1 2.2.10-2
Control: found -1 2.2.6-2+deb10u1
Control: found -1 2.2.6-2

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for expat.

CVE-2021-45960[0]:
| In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 (or more)
| places in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c can lead to realloc
| misbehavior (e.g., allocating too few bytes, or only freeing memory).


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-45960
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45960
[1] https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/531

Regards,
Salvatore

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