DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20843

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20843
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JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20843
Upstream
Published
2019-06-24T17:15:09Z
Modified
2025-09-30T05:12:23.206287Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).

References

Affected packages

Debian:11

expat

Package

Name
expat
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/expat?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.2.6-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

libxmltok

Package

Name
libxmltok
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxmltok?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.2-4
1.2-4.1~exp1
1.2-4.1
1.2-4.2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12

expat

Package

Name
expat
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/expat?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.2.6-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

libxmltok

Package

Name
libxmltok
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxmltok?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.2-4
1.2-4.1~exp1
1.2-4.1
1.2-4.2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13

expat

Package

Name
expat
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/expat?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.2.6-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14

expat

Package

Name
expat
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/expat?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.2.6-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}