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Use After Free

CVE-2022-40674

Severity High
Score 8.1/10

Summary

libexpat before 2.4.9 has a use-after-free vulnerability in the "doContent" function in "xmlparse.c".

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published