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).
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2904-1 expat security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5073-1 expat security update
EUVD EUVD 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).
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5288-1 Expat vulnerabilities
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Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00374}

epss

{'score': 0.00379}


Mon, 05 May 2025 17:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-05T16:45:11.487Z

Reserved: 2022-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-45960

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-01-01T19:15:08.030

Modified: 2025-05-05T17:17:28.457

Link: CVE-2021-45960

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-01-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-45960 - Bugzilla

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