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CVE-2012-1148 (GCVE-0-2012-1148)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-07-03 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:45
VLAI
Summary
Memory leak in the poolGrow function in expat/lib/xmlparse.c in expat before 2.1.0 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of crafted XML files that cause improperly-handled reallocation failures when expanding entities.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2012-03-09 00:00
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