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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20843 - debian/expat

In libexpat in Expat before 2.2.7, XML input including XML names that contain a large number of colons could make the XML parser consume a high amount of RAM and CPU resources while processing (enough to be usable for denial-of-service attacks).

Evidence
  • imported from OSV Debian, untriaged
History
  • 2026-10-28: pending-human-approval - bulk import