CVE-2021-45960 (GCVE-0-2021-45960)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-01-01 18:47
Modified
2025-05-05 16:45
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
In Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 (or more) places in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c can lead to realloc misbehavior (e.g., allocating too few bytes, or only freeing memory).
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