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Vigil@nce - Expat: infinite loop via XML Names Large Colons

August 2019 by Vigil@nce

SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

Impacted products: Debian, BIG-IP Hardware, TMOS, Fedora, openSUSE. Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.

Severity: 2/4.

Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on client.

Provenance: document.

Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).

Creation date: 27/06/2019.

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can trigger an infinite loop via XML Names Large Colons of Expat, in order to trigger a denial of service.

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