MGASA-2016-0193

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CVE-2016-0718
Published: 20 May 2016, 11:38
Last modified:16 Apr 2026, 06:24

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

20 May 2016, 11:38
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
16 Apr 2026, 06:24
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Updated expat packages fix security vulnerability Gustavo Grieco discovered that Expat does not properly handle certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the Expat library to crash, or potentially, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application (CVE-2016-0718).

Affected Systems

  • mageia•expat

    < 2.1.0-9.2.mga5

References (3)