Debian/expat: high 8.1

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via c

Action: Upgrade expat to 2.1.1-2 or later.

Affected

Fixed versions

Sources

• osv: DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4472#Debian:13/expat
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4472

published 2016-06-30T17:59:04Z · modified 2026-10-08T23:47:32.931089431Z · JSON