In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/c20b758c332d9a13afbbb276d30db1d183a85d43 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/318 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/c20b758c332d9a13afbbb276d30db1d183a85d43 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/318 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · libexpat_project, pythonNVD modified 2026-10-14 07:16
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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