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PSF-2017-11
No affected components available
Expat 2.2.2 was released with multiple security fixes:
- #43: Protect against compilation without any source of high quality entropy enabled, e.g. with CMake build system
- #60: Windows with _UNICODE: Unintended use of LoadLibraryW with a non-wide string resulted in failure to load advapi32.dll and degradation in quality of used entropy when compiled with _UNICODE for Windows; you can launch existing binaries with EXPAT_ENTROPY_DEBUG=1 in the environment to inspect the quality of entropy used during runtime
- [MOX-006]: Fix non-NULL parser parameter validation in XML_Parse; resulted in NULL dereference, previously
Expat 2.2.3 contains an additional security fix: #82: CVE-2017-11742 -- Windows: Fix DLL hijacking vulnerability using Steve Holme's LoadLibrary wrapper for/of cURL
Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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