CVE-2018-20843

Summary:

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).

Reference Links(if available):

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/186

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/262

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5226

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/262/commits/11f8838bf99ea0a6f0b76f9760c43704d00c4ff6

https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_7/expat/Changes

CVSS Score (if available)

v2: / HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

v3: / HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Links to Exploits(if available)