RLSA-2020:4484

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Published
2020-11-03T12:09:00Z
Modified
2023-02-02T14:09:06.394141Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Moderate: expat security update
Details

Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents.

Security Fix(es):

  • expat: large number of colons in input makes parser consume high amount of resources, leading to DoS (CVE-2018-20843)

  • expat: heap-based buffer over-read via crafted XML input (CVE-2019-15903)

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 Rocky Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:8 / expat

Package

Name
expat
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/expat?distro=rocky-linux-8-4-legacy&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0:2.2.5-4.el8