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RHSA-2022:6921: Red Hat Security Advisory: expat security update
An update for expat 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:
2022-10-12
Updated:
2022-10-12
RHSA-2022:6921 - Security Advisory
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Synopsis
Important: expat security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
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Topic
An update for expat 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.
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.
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
expat-2.0.1-15.el6_10.src.rpm
SHA-256: 533396d2a8e282d9ba5d772b1d614ae4106c8661dc9f64077bdc011890eb5a28
x86_64
expat-2.0.1-15.el6_10.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 1ddf4b0ce98f98f0c5b6731160af0e5cdf7e4a32a134e9fe4d618fc7cc352efe
expat-2.0.1-15.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 7eab50f76d2d2159da302a0a7f358dae9c71066d5b01b36c8eddb601f0314b9b
expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-15.el6_10.i686.rpm
SHA-256: c6d55ac7fee5acbff4648f6504956dae066aaf121481e8ea0da7b4b3e8e14a7c
expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-15.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: ede9e83c766dabebce31356ae183c6afe6d3353135d25ea184987cb8451dd023
expat-devel-2.0.1-15.el6_10.i686.rpm
SHA-256: a413af20690b61c8ca29df8eb5c318f29ae1acd5672ad7768e9d28d168877c4c
expat-devel-2.0.1-15.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 9366353b8df4d4355c6513204e362ba26a0ddd9c025ee89c092ab06d0107fb84
i386
expat-2.0.1-15.el6_10.i686.rpm
SHA-256: 1ddf4b0ce98f98f0c5b6731160af0e5cdf7e4a32a134e9fe4d618fc7cc352efe
expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-15.el6_10.i686.rpm
SHA-256: c6d55ac7fee5acbff4648f6504956dae066aaf121481e8ea0da7b4b3e8e14a7c
expat-devel-2.0.1-15.el6_10.i686.rpm
SHA-256: a413af20690b61c8ca29df8eb5c318f29ae1acd5672ad7768e9d28d168877c4c
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6
SRPM
expat-2.0.1-15.el6_10.src.rpm
SHA-256: 533396d2a8e282d9ba5d772b1d614ae4106c8661dc9f64077bdc011890eb5a28
s390x
expat-2.0.1-15.el6_10.s390.rpm
SHA-256: b17f89fbf175958c6c777d8104231504e682260379529f1693735b349e3ca839
expat-2.0.1-15.el6_10.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: 2f0810842b6534bcbaf8b424b7d890fdc0ceda700d78644423aa6773e76ceb03
expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-15.el6_10.s390.rpm
SHA-256: 0be1a5aab020f50babd05ee63227ebceeb55b5af8879950f819c5a9709128220
expat-debuginfo-2.0.1-15.el6_10.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: e14e40fccc954c4ae0fa85f6be98f1af80da1d6d8724549f8844613af0fa3b05
expat-devel-2.0.1-15.el6_10.s390.rpm
SHA-256: e45ca7085b3c235ed95b88a3204bda64c5d3c05ab37de28a6d4b0aea69d6290c
expat-devel-2.0.1-15.el6_10.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: 99406a9911f9a904ea85e6278cd35adeb83575d7dfbb03b8f5523a35f02e2cc5
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