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Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6878-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6878-01 - Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. Issues addressed include a use-after-free vulnerability.

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: expat security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:6878-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6878
Issue date: 2022-10-11
CVE Names: CVE-2022-40674
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  1. Summary:

An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

  1. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

  1. Description:

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

  • expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c
    (CVE-2022-40674)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

  1. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing the updated packages, applications using the Expat library
must be restarted for the update to take effect.

  1. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

2130769 - CVE-2022-40674 expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c

  1. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):

Source:
expat-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.src.rpm

aarch64:
expat-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.aarch64.rpm
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.aarch64.rpm
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.aarch64.rpm
expat-devel-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
expat-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.ppc64le.rpm
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.ppc64le.rpm
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.ppc64le.rpm
expat-devel-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
expat-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.s390x.rpm
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.s390x.rpm
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.s390x.rpm
expat-devel-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
expat-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.i686.rpm
expat-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.x86_64.rpm
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.i686.rpm
expat-debuginfo-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.x86_64.rpm
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.i686.rpm
expat-debugsource-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.x86_64.rpm
expat-devel-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.i686.rpm
expat-devel-2.2.5-8.el8_6.3.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

  1. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40674
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

  1. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is [email protected]. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2022 Red Hat, Inc.
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