| Name | CVE-2024-45491 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. dtdCopy in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflow for nDefaultAtts on 32-bit platforms (where UINT_MAX equals SIZE_MAX). |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3893-1, DSA-5770-1, ELA-1190-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1080150 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| expat (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.1.0-6+deb8u12 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.2.0-2+deb9u5 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.2.0-2+deb9u9 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 2.2.6-2+deb10u8 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.2.6-2+deb10u7 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 2.2.10-2+deb11u5 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 2.2.10-2+deb11u6 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 2.5.0-1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.6.4-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/891
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/888
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/b8a7dca4670973347892cfc452b24d9001dcd6f5 (R_2_6_3)