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CVE-2017-11742

Published: 7/30/2017 Last updated: 8/5/2024 Reserved: 7/30/2017

The writeRandomBytes_RtlGenRandom function in xmlparse.c in libexpat in Expat 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse ADVAPI32.DLL in the current working directory because of an untrusted search path, aka DLL hijacking.

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (4)

conf-expat conf-gtk2 conf-gtk3 ocaml-expat

Products affected (0)

No product listed.

References (8)