| Name | CVE-2016-5300 |
| Description | The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-508-1, DSA-3597-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| expat (PTS) | bullseye | 2.2.10-2+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2.2.10-2+deb11u7 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 2.5.0-1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.7.1-1 | fixed |
| libxmltok (PTS) | bookworm, bullseye | 1.2-4 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - libxmltok <ignored> (Minor issue, no runtime dependencies left)