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Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1530-03
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1530-03 - An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
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https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_1530.json
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: expat security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1530-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1530
Issue date: 2024-03-26
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-52425
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Summary:
An update for expat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
'Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.
Description:
Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.
Security Fix(es):
expat: parsing large tokens can trigger a denial of service (CVE-2023-52425)
expat: XML Entity Expansion (CVE-2024-28757)
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-52425
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.3_release_notes/index
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262877
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268766
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