MGASA-2016-0227: expat Mageia

CVSS: UnknownPublished
Published 17-06-2016Last modified 16-04-2026
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Vulnerability summary

MGASA-2016-0227 is a vulnerability in expat Mageia with no CVSS score yet.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
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0%100%
No EPSS score yet
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 2 · Downstream 0
CVE-2012-6702CVE-2016-5300

Timeline

  1. 17-06-2016
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-04-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Updated expat packages fix security vulnerabilities Updated expat packages fix security vulnerabilities: An issue was introduced when CVE-2012-0876 was addressed. Stefan Sørensen discovered that the use of the function XML_Parse() seeds the random number generator generating repeated outputs for rand() calls (CVE-2012-6702). Due to an incomplete solution for CVE-2012-0876, the parser poorly seeds the random number generator allowing an attacker to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML file with crafted identifiers (CVE-2016-5300).

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Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

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Affected systems

Mageia1 product
  • expat< 2.1.0-9.3.mga5

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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