CVE-2012-1148
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.
- EPSS
- 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-399
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apple:mac_os_x
- libexpat_project:libexpat
References
- http://expat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expat/expat/lib/xmlparse.c?r1=1.166&r2=1.167
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00005.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0731.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0062.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html