Vigil@nce - Expat: infinite loop via XML Names Large Colons
August 2019 by Vigil@nce
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, BIG-IP Hardware, TMOS, Fedora, openSUSE. Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 27/06/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger an infinite loop via XML Names Large Colons of Expat, in order to trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Expat-infinite-loop-via-XML-Names-Large-Colons-29637