CVE-2018-20843

expat: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS

Published Jun 24, 2019 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 7.1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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).

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1839-1 expat security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4472-1 expat security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-13383 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).
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4040-1 Expat vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4040-2 Expat vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4852-1 VTK vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5455-1 xmltok library vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7199-1 xmltok library vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00039.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5226 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931031 cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html cve-icon
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_7/expat/Changes cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/186 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/262 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/262/commits/11f8838bf99ea0a6f0b76f9760c43704d00c4ff6 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00028.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CEJJSQSG3KSUQY4FPVHZ7ZTT7FORMFVD/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IDAUGEB3TUP6NEKJDBUBZX7N5OAUOOOK/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20843 cve-icon
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/39 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201911-08 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190703-0001/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K51011533 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4040-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4040-2/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20843 cve-icon
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4472 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-11 cve-icon cve-icon
History
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