Package        : expat
Version        : 2.1.0-6+deb8u6
CVE IDs        : CVE-2019-15903
Debian Bug     : #939394

It was discovered that there was a heap-based buffer overread
vulnerability in expat, an XML parsing library.

A specially-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 overread.

For Debian 8 "Jessie", this issue has been fixed in expat version
2.1.0-6+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.


Regards,

- -- 
      ,''`.
     : :'  :     Chris Lamb
     `. `'`      lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
       `-

Debian LTS: DLA-1912-1: expat security update

September 6, 2019
It was discovered that there was a heap-based buffer overread vulnerability in expat, an XML parsing library

Summary

For Debian 8 "Jessie", this issue has been fixed in expat version
2.1.0-6+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your expat packages.


Regards,

- --
,''`.
: :' : Chris Lamb
`. `'` lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
`-



Severity
Package : expat
Version : 2.1.0-6+deb8u6
Debian Bug : #939394

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