Package: expat
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for expat.

CVE-2015-1283[0]:
| Multiple integer overflows in the XML_GetBuffer function in Expat
| through 2.1.0, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 and other
| products, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service
| (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact
| via crafted XML data, a related issue to CVE-2015-2716.

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-2015-1283
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1283
Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

It looks like that Mozilla wrote a patch here:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr31/rev/2f3e78643f5c

And chromium reused that patch too.

Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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