In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 (or more) places in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c can lead to realloc misbehavior (e.g., allocating too few bytes, or only freeing memory).
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DLA-2904-1 | expat security update |
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DSA-5073-1 | expat security update |
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EUVD-2021-32666 | In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 (or more) places in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c can lead to realloc misbehavior (e.g., allocating too few bytes, or only freeing memory). |
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USN-5288-1 | Expat vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2025-05-05T16:45:11.487Z
Reserved: 2022-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2021-45960

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:54:31.123Z

Status : Modified
Published: 2022-01-01T19:15:08.030
Modified: 2025-05-05T17:17:28.457
Link: CVE-2021-45960


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