expat: CVE-2019-15903

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expat: CVE-2019-15903

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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: expat: CVE-2019-15903

Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:02:17 +0200

Source: expat
Version: 2.2.7-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/317

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for expat.

CVE-2019-15903[0]:
| 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.


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-2019-15903
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-15903
[1] https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/317
[2] https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/318
[3] https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/c20b758c332d9a13afbbb276d30db1d183a85d43

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

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