Memory Leak in expat's poolGrow Function Allows Denial of Service

CVE-2012-1148 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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