CVE-2016-0718
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 2.8%expat - security update
Published: 5/26/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Expat allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed input document, which triggers a buffer overflow.
Affected packages (5)
- Alpine/expatfrom 0, < 2.1.1-r1
- Debian/expatfrom 0, < 2.1.1-2
- Debian/expatfrom 0, < 2.1.0-1+deb7u3
- Debian/expatfrom 0, < 2.1.0-6+deb8u2
- Debian/libxmltokfrom 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |