{"id":"USN-7000-1","summary":"expat vulnerabilities","details":"Shang-Hung Wan discovered that Expat did not properly handle certain\nfunction calls when a negative input length was provided. An attacker\ncould use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute\narbitrary code. (CVE-2024-45490)\n\nShang-Hung Wan discovered that Expat did not properly handle the\npotential for an integer overflow on 32-bit platforms. An attacker\ncould use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute\narbitrary code. 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