Name | CVE-2017-9233 |
Description | XML External Entity vulnerability in libexpat 2.2.0 and earlier (Expat XML Parser Library) allows attackers to put the parser in an infinite loop using a malformed external entity definition from an external DTD. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-990-1, DSA-3898-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
expat (PTS) | buster | 2.2.6-2+deb10u4 | fixed |
buster (security) | 2.2.6-2+deb10u6 | fixed | |
bullseye (security), bullseye | 2.2.10-2+deb11u5 | fixed | |
bookworm, sid | 2.5.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
expat | source | wheezy | 2.1.0-1+deb7u5 | DLA-990-1 | ||
expat | source | jessie | 2.1.0-6+deb8u4 | DSA-3898-1 | ||
expat | source | stretch | 2.2.0-2+deb9u1 | DSA-3898-1 | ||
expat | source | (unstable) | 2.2.1-1 |
https://libexpat.github.io/doc/cve-2017-9233/
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/c4bf96bb51dd2a1b0e185374362ee136fe2c9d7f