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CVE-2012-1148

Date: July 3, 2012

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (23)

Url: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=110127&aid=2958794&group_id=10127

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52379

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00005.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51040

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0731.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51024

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-1

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0062.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1148

Url: https://support.apple.com/HT205637

Url: http://expat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expat/expat/lib/xmlparse.c?r1=1.166&r2=1.167

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-1148

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2525

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/49504

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034344

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1527-1

Url: http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/files/expat/2.1.0/

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1148

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:041

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1148

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-1148

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2012-1148

Date: July 3, 2012

Language: C

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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