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CVE-2012-1148

CVE information

Published

11 years ago

Last Modified

3 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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Description

Memory leak in the poolGrow function in expat/lib/xmlparse.c in expat before 2.1.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of crafted XML files that cause improperly-handled reallocation failures when expanding entities..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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