ALSA-2022:7811

Source
https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2022-7811.html
Import Source
https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2022:7811.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALSA-2022:7811
Related
Published
2022-11-08T00:00:00Z
Modified
2022-11-11T19:37:34Z
Summary
Important: mingw-expat security update
Details

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. The mingw-expat packages provide a port of the Expat library for MinGW.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: mingw-expat (2.4.8). (BZ#2057023, BZ#2057037, BZ#2057127)

Security Fix(es):

  • expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235)
  • expat: Namespace-separator characters in "xmlns[:prefix]" attribute values can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25236)
  • expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames() (CVE-2022-25315)
  • expat: Stack exhaustion in doctype parsing (CVE-2022-25313)
  • expat: Integer overflow in copyString() (CVE-2022-25314)
  • expat: Integer overflow in the doProlog function (CVE-2022-23990)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

References

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 / mingw32-expat

Package

Name
mingw32-expat

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.4.8-1.el8

AlmaLinux:8 / mingw64-expat

Package

Name
mingw64-expat

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.4.8-1.el8