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RHSA-2022:6967: Red Hat Security Advisory: compat-expat1 security update
An update for compat-expat1 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support. 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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
Related CVEs:
- CVE-2022-40674: expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c
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Issued:
2022-10-17
Updated:
2022-10-17
RHSA-2022:6967 - Security Advisory
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Synopsis
Important: compat-expat1 security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
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Topic
An update for compat-expat1 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support.
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.
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.
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
Fixes
- BZ - 2130769 - CVE-2022-40674 expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6
SRPM
compat-expat1-1.95.8-9.el6_10.src.rpm
SHA-256: 0f99ca0caa33b96218b2f4e5f9c9231fd3f8ad1fab4d34466639834dc4f693ed
x86_64
compat-expat1-1.95.8-9.el6_10.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 269c1ccaa7e574ad02bb5d83b482a67604ea2830bc98357fb5a1bb80b4d59411
compat-expat1-1.95.8-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 1b1a9a497408a95ec8ec8a4c514be20806cd0717f5a7484a72096d07d945202e
compat-expat1-debuginfo-1.95.8-9.el6_10.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 01ebf55b2730ae1d5827586bc13baa06038582422196e1b5117b42bb141522a8
compat-expat1-debuginfo-1.95.8-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: b7f7c529e69b40db5deedf863ade7d41fb3896a54753de63490ad94de0e87c40
i386
compat-expat1-1.95.8-9.el6_10.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 269c1ccaa7e574ad02bb5d83b482a67604ea2830bc98357fb5a1bb80b4d59411
compat-expat1-debuginfo-1.95.8-9.el6_10.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 01ebf55b2730ae1d5827586bc13baa06038582422196e1b5117b42bb141522a8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6
SRPM
compat-expat1-1.95.8-9.el6_10.src.rpm
SHA-256: 0f99ca0caa33b96218b2f4e5f9c9231fd3f8ad1fab4d34466639834dc4f693ed
s390x
compat-expat1-1.95.8-9.el6_10.s390.rpm
SHA-256: 41c2dd31917937bda0138c32424dee04f6934e6e5606a4abf3911ba6c9ab976d
compat-expat1-1.95.8-9.el6_10.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: 9edb89b752261f008b386d4a3ac8628309ae4d97be71aa234008535226872ec4
compat-expat1-debuginfo-1.95.8-9.el6_10.s390.rpm
SHA-256: 91f5da09a0e4acaf01e7d88bb64a8fca06df94c695fa3970e5a4435f22e40c78
compat-expat1-debuginfo-1.95.8-9.el6_10.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: ebd128c2938c6bdeb52b39d64ea43cdeb099f086aed6dcc69c1b7104189d03a2
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