CVE-2023-40128

Summary

CVE-2023-40128 is a heap buffer overflow vulnerability affecting several functions in xmlregexp.c. This issue results in a possible out-of-bounds write, allowing for local privilege escalation without requiring additional execution privileges. Notably, user interaction is not necessary for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability.

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